Authors starting with P from Edwin V Glaser Rare Books

Braunschweig: Harald Bruhn. 1888. Corners and edges rubbed and bumped. Binding dull. A good copy.. 1/4 morocco over pebbled cloth ix,618,24pp. with 73 illustrations in the text. 8vo. ... more information

Geneva: Imprimerie Ch. Gruaz. 1847. Just a bit of very light wear and dust soiling to the wrappers. Some. light marginal foxing to a few leaves of the text. A near fine,. entirely uncut and unopened copy of the first edition.. Orig. stiff dec.-bordered printed paper wrapps. with printers devices on the front (simple) and back (elaborate) covers 96, (1 errata) pp., with one folding plate containing three figures. 8vo. Wellcome, IV, p. 459. Not in the British Library Catalogue. ... more information

NY: Henry Schuman. (1951). Covers stained. A good copy.. Orig. cloth, dust jacket First edition. x, (4), 360 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. ... more information

NY: Henry Schuman. (1951). A good ex-library copy copy.. Orig. cloth First edition. x, (4), 360 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. ... more information

NY: Augustus Kelley. 1970,. A fine copy.. Orig. cloth facsimile of the NY, 1924 edition. xxii, 334 pp., illustrated. 8vo. ... more information

London,: Henry Whitridge,. 1763.. Title a bit toned and spotted, some light foxing. Last two blank. leaves stained at the edges. A good copy only of the first edition,. first issue.. disbound, (2), 33 pp.8vo, Osler calls Ward "perhaps the most successful and the best of the 18th- century quacks." His famous "drop and pill" universal remedy, was a dangerous compound of antimony. Nonetheless he was much patronized and admired, and amassed a considerable fortune. Wellcome IV, p. 283, also... more information

Berlin: August Hirschwald. 1908. Bindingdull; rubbed at extremities. A very good copy of the first. edition.. Orig. cloth 16 pp., with 26 multi-column tables, most folding. Thin 4to. "A useful medical chronology."----Garrison-Morton 6403. ... more information

NY,: Collins & Hannay,. 1832.. Spine label and covers chipped and slightly soiled. Library label on. front pastedown. Some marginal staining on a few pages with some. scattered foxing throughout. Inscription to Rev. Lucius Smith on half-. title. A very good untrimmed copy.. Cloth backed paper boards with paper spine label. First edition. viii,160pp., Thin 8vo, ... more information

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1958. Near fine.. Cloth, dust jacket. Illustrated. Large 8vo. ... more information

London: Prevost. 1733. Front joints started. Upper margin of first few leaves of volume two. nibbled, with no loss to text. A good set.. Contemp. calf (20), 213, (3); 248, (4) pp., Folding table in volume one. 2 vols.,12mo. ... more information

n.d.(c.1856). Very good.. 2pages on2 (of 4) sides , folded 71/2"x6" sheet. Palmer was San Francisco's first physician in 1849. He said of himself that he saw "More of the pathos and tragedy...than any other person on the spot." He abandoned medicine and became a writer. He served in the Confederate Army and attracted considerable notice with his ballad "Stonewall Jackson's Way." His writings on the south are considered his best. ... more information

Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co. (1938). Very good.. Orig. cloth 311 pp. 8vo. ... more information

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. (1984). A fine copy of the first published edition.. Orig. cloth, dust jacket pp. x, 221 with seven full-page illustrations in the text. 8vo. Transcription of a notebook compiled in 1696 by a young Massachusetts practitioner, this may well be the earliest work available on the general practice of medicine in the North American colonies. ... more information

N.P: Editions du Bouton d'Or. n.d. Number26 of 75 copies printed. Covers slightly soiled. Very good.. Printed paper wrapps (li)-xciiipp. 12mo. ... more information

Milan: Giuseppe Chiusi. 1843. Covers soiled and eroded at the spine. A very good, unopened copy of. the first edition.. Orig. printed wrapps. 20, (2) pp., with two plates. Folio. Important study of the parotid gland by the noted Italian anatomist Panizza, who was professor of Anatomy at Pavia and considered one of the founders of the doctrine of cerebral localization. Castiglione, p. 678. Wellcome IV, p. 290. WorldCat notes only five locations. ... more information

Bern: Hans Huber. (1963). A fine copy of this German edition.. Orig. cloth, dust jacket 125 pp., with a frontis. portrait. 8vo. Translated and edited by Erwin H. Ackerknecht. Band II of Hubers Klassiker der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften series. ... more information

Berlin: Reimer. 1839. Lacks the frontis. portrait, a photocopy of which is laid in. Browned. throughout. A good ex-library copy.. Modern black cloth First edition. xvi, 250, (1) pp., 8vo. Waller 17482. ... more information

Einsiedeln: Benziger. 1901. Hinges started. Text lightly browned. A very good copy.. Orig. cloth First edition. 172, (2) pp., Frontis. portrait, five plates, three of which are folding, and a few figures inthe text. 8vo. Waller 17487. ... more information

Lyon: Société de Médecine de Lyon. 1812.. A fine copy.. Modern stiff paper wrapps., 20, 4 pp. 4to. Wellcome IV, p. 294. ... more information

Paris: Gabon et Compagnie. 1825. Complete with the half-title. Sheep just a bit worn and scuffed;. boards lightly rubbed. Just a bit of very light, marginal foxing to. the first few leaves. A fine copy of the uncommon first edition,. second issue.. Contemp. quarter-sheep over marbled boards with vellum tips, gilt-ruled and lettered spine, yellow edges xxxvii, (1 blank), 612 pp., with 12 tables, two of them full-page, in the text. 8vo. The first issue, also scarce, was published in 1821, and also includes (p... more information