[SPEECHES OF UNITED STATES SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES]
by [CIVIL WAR]
Half-sheep over marbled boards. Spine label: Speeches. Presentation inscription on fly-leaf, from James B. Smallwood to the Hon. John P. Hale, U.S. Senator, dated April 4, 1861. Bound volume of 37 individual speeches and 1 folded broadside made between 1860 and 1861 by various elected officials, including Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, William H. Seward, and Hon. Milton S. Latham, of California, among many others.
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Journal and proceedings of the Missouri state convention, held at Jefferson City and St. Louis, March 1861
by [CIVIL WAR]
St. Louis: George Knapp & Co., 1861. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label; small cancelled stamp on title, scattered foxing, but overall an excellent copy of this item in the delicate original binding. First edition. A fascinating view of the proceedings at which the State of Missouri considers its relationship with the federal government of the United States.
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Observations on Fungus Haematodes, or soft cancer
by WARDROP, James
Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Co, 1809. FIRST EDITION. With 6 full-page etched plates, 4 smaller etchings in the text. Modern retrospective half-backed marbled boards; minor foxing and dampstaining throughout, A sound, complete copy with the bookplates of the St. Thomas Hospital Library and R.G. Whitfield. First edition of this medical treatise on soft tissue sarcomas. The pathology of so-called “fungus haematodes” was introduced in 1803 for vascular, fungating tumors. Using several case studies, the text describes and illustrates cancerous... Read More
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My winter on the Nile
by WARNER, Charles Dudley
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. Frontispiece wood engraving (“The wooden man 6,000 years old), title vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Red pictorial cloth in black and gold, rebacked with the original spine laid down; text is toned but clean. Bookplate of the Ladies’ Christian Union. First edition, published simultaneously in Hartford by the American Publishing Company, of Warner’s account of his travels down the Nile and around Egypt. This work includes detailed stories about his exploration of mosques, visits... Read More
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Physical education and the preservation of health
by WARREN, John C.
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1846. FIRST EDITION. Preceding the title page is a 4-page publisher’s catalogue. Original flexible cloth, author and title in gilt on front cover. An excellent copy with the presentation signature of the author to M.B. Parkman. First edition; a second edition was published the same year. Originally a lecture given in 1830, he stresses the value and importance of exercise, a sound diet, and healthful habits for individuals of all ages. Of particular... Read More
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Etherization with surgical remarks
by WARREN, John C.
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1848. FIRST EDITION. Modern morocco, new endpapers; dedication leaf detached and title page crudely repaired. Ownership signatures on fly-leaf. First edition. Warren records here the first application of anaesthesia during major surgery. On October 16, 1846 he excised a tumor from the neck of a twenty-year-old printer, Gilbert Abbott, assisted by William Morton, a Boston dentist who administered the ether. This event was to transform medical and surgical practice. Also included in this... Read More
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Recent progress in surgery. The annual address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 25, 1864
by WARREN, Jonathan Mason
Boston: David Clapp, 1864. FIRST EDITION. Purple cloth with elegant device stamped in gilt and blind to boards; sunning to spine, minor chipping at head and tail of spine. Inscribed by the author to James T. Fields (1817-1881) of the notable publisher Ticknor and Fields on the fly-leaf. A very nice wide-margined copy. First edition of the published annual address on recent advances in surgery by the eminent Boston physician Jonathan Mason Warren. Warren here provides a summation of... Read More
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Ten thousand a year
by [WARREN, Samuel]
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1841. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Includes all half-titles and publisher’s advertisements. Original publisher’s cloth decorated in blind; all volumes have been re-backed with the original back-strips laid down. Small ownership stamp with crown and initial “D” in each volume. First English edition of one of the most famous novels about law. This tragi-comic novel became one of the most popular books of the century. It is an account of Mr. Tittlebat Titmouse, a... Read More
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On the principle of vitality, a discourse delivered in the First Church of Boston, Tuesday, June 8th, 1790. Before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
by WATERHOUSE, Benjamin
Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 1790. FIRST EDITION. Original wrappers; worn, partially torn, staining and paper repairs to a few leaves and general browning due to paper stock. First edition; it was later reprinted as part of his work The Botanist in 1811. Waterhouse provides an overview of the principles surrounding vitality, animation and life, as opposed to specifically defining the ways to treat persons “apparently dead.” Vitality is the capacity to live, grow, or develop, the property of... Read More
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The history of the reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain
by WATSON, Robert
Dublin: Price, et al., 1783. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, rebacked; an excellent copy with the bookplate of the Franciscan Capuchin Library, Church Street, Dublin, on the paste-down. First Dublin edition, printed the same year as the first London edition. Divided into six books, the first deals with the life of Philip, with the remainder describing the various wars and the political state of Spain, its allies and enemies, during Philip’s reign, from 1598-1621. A significant focus of the history... Read More
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![Tubercular, anaestetic and mixed tuberculous types of Hawaiian lepers. (offered with) “Illustrations of the principal phenomena of leprosy.” From Atlas of illustrations of clinical medicine, surgery and pathology. Fasciculus XVIII. London: The New Sydenham Society, [1903-4]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/672/921/1357921672.0.l.jpg)
Tubercular, anaestetic and mixed tuberculous types of Hawaiian lepers. (offered with) “Illustrations of the principal phenomena of leprosy.” From Atlas of illustrations of clinical medicine, surgery and pathology. Fasciculus XVIII. London: The New Sydenham Society, [1903-4]
by WAYSON, James T.
Kalaupapa, Hawaii; London: New Sydenham Society, 1903. ONLY EDITION. I: Fifty-two silver gelatin photographs mounted on twenty-six stiff paper boards. Gift inscription on the front pastedown “To Dr. Dudley, Compliments of Dr. J.T. Wayson M.D.”. Ownership inscription on the same pastedown “Dr. Wayson made these photos especially for me. W.H.D.” Original blind-decorated black buckram. An astounding, unique piece. II: With 22 plates (4 in color). Modern cloth, title in gilt on cover; an excellent copy. I: A morbid gift... Read More
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The private correspondence of Daniel Webster. Edited by Fletcher Webster
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1857. FIRST EDITION. Each volume with frontispiece portrait. Full polished calf, spines gilt in compartments, edges marbled, some light wear to covers; interiors lightly browned, frontispiece in Volume I lightly foxed, some faint spotting to frontispiece of Volume II. First edition. Compiled and edited by Webster's eldest son.
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History of animals. Being the fourth volume of elements of useful knowledge
by WEBSTER, Noah
New Haven: Published and sold by Howe & Deforest, and Walter & Steele, 1812. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary tree calf; head of spine chipped, light scuffing to binding, previous owner's signature on front free end-paper. First edition.
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The American spelling book. Containing the rudiments of the English language for the use of schools in the United States
by WEBSTER, Noah
Concord, NH: J. Perkins, 1817. Woodcut headpieces. Original cloth-backed blue boards; boards rubbed and soiled, title-page faded, light age toning. Revised edition.
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The treatment of syphilis with salvarsan, introduction by Paul Ehrlich
by WECHSELMANN, Wilhelm
New York: Rebman Co, 1911. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 16 coloured illustrations (3 double-page and 1 folding) and 15 text figures. Original cloth, red spine label, frayed at head and foot of spine; covers toned, still an excellent copy. First edition in English describing Ehrlich's new product Salvarsan for use in the treatment of syphilis. Wechselmann here conducts a study of 1400 cases treated with salvarsan at the Rudolph Virchow Hospital in Berlin. Incorporated in this work is... Read More
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Institutiones mathematica decem et sex purae mixtaeque matheseos disciplinas complexae
by WEIDLER, Io. Frider
Vitemberg: Georg. Marcum Knochium, 1725. SECOND EDITION. Title in red and black. With 48 leaves of plates. In a contemporary full calf binding dated 1729 in blind on the back cover. Overall in excellent condition, with only minor wear. Second edition, greatly enlarged with over 100 additional text pages and illustrations. This early encyclopaedia of science is Weidler’s most important work, of significant value for its abundance of data and details in each area of science. Among the subjects... Read More
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Die krankheiten des menschlichen auges
by WELLER, Carl heinrich
Vienna: Anton von Haykul, 1828. With 5 full page plates (4 coloured) and a folding plate of instruments. Modern cloth-backed boards; some light spotting, library stamp. The present book is the author's most famous. It has been corrected and improved from the original printing of 1822. All editions are scarce. It is especially valuable for the extensive bibliography of ophthalmology which occupies the first part of the volume.
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The croquet player
by WELLS, H.G.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s boards, spine label, original illustrated dust jacket complete and unclipped. An excellent copy. First edition of one of Wells’ medical ghost stories/mysteries. From the wrapper: “In a café at Les Noupets, as he comfortably sips his vermouth before lunching with his aunt, the narrator is accosted by a voluble stranger who tells him a strange and terrible story of the haunted countryside of Cainsmarsh, and of how he was finally driven... Read More
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An essay on dew, and several appearences connected with it
by WELLS, William Charles
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1814. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary boards, rebacked; an uncut copy, with a presentation inscription from the author to James Johnston, Esq. on the title. First edition of this classic of meteorology, for which Wells was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. His researches were of major importance in the development of the science of ventilation in relation to relative humidity. "It would take too much space to follow all of Wells' ingenious experiments, but... Read More
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Observationes medico-practicae, de affectibus capitis internis & externis. . .
by WEPFER, Johann Jakob
Tiguri: apud Heideggerum & Soc., 1745. editio altera. All blanks present. Portrait of the author, woodcut head- and tailpieces, full-page engraving. Contemporary vellum, sprinkled edges; an excellent copy. Later edition (editio altera) of Wepfer’s comprehensive treatise on brain diseases, first printed posthumously in 1727. This edition includes an excellent biography of the author. Wepfer (620-1695), one of the most prominent Swiss physicians of the seventeenth century, “was appointed city physician at Schaffhausen and some years later became personal physician... Read More
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Observationum variarum, libri duo in quibus . .
by WESSELING, Petri
Amsterdam: R. & J. Westensios, 1727. Printer's device to title. Eighteenth century vellum over pasteboards, some soiling, small portion of vellum missing at foot of spine. Portion of fly-leaf torn away at head, small stain at upper fore-edge of first few signatures, some occasional text browning. From the Marist College main library, Brookland, D.C. with their ownership stamp to title. Wesseling (1692-1764) is remembered today chiefly for his major edition of Diodorus Siculus. The present miscellaneous work includes the... Read More
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Ethan Frome
by WHARTON, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Red cloth with gilt title and author on front board and spine; gilt top edge, bottom and fore-edges untrimmed. Preserved in a clamshell box, spine label; an excellent copy. First edition, first printing, with “wearily” unbattered on p. 135. Novella featuring the story of Ethan Frome’s grim life and tragic accident in a bleak Massachusetts farm town through an extended flashback. A realistic social criticism of early twentieth century... Read More
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Astronomy and general physics considered with reference to natural theology
by WHEWELL, William
London: William Pickering, 1834. SECOND EDITION. Second edition of the third treatise in the Bridgewater Treatise series, a group of works designed to explore the natural world within the framework of a divine design as first outlined by William Paley. Whewell writes here of his conviction that the more one studies the laws of nature the more convinced that person will be in the existence of God. Whewell (1794-1866) was a co-founder and president of the British Association... Read More
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History of the Inductive Sciences
by WHEWELL, William
London: John W. Parker, 1837. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and spine labels. Signature of Humphry House (possibly the British literary scholar, 1908-1955) on the fly-leaf. First edition of the author’s important survey of science from the Greeks through the nineteenth century. Not only was the publication of his History remarkable proof of Whewell’s extraordinary powers of knowledge, but it resulted in a recognized position of high authority among the... Read More
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Principia mathematica
by WHITEHEAD, Alfred North & RUSSELL, Bertrand
Cambridge: University Press, 1927. FIRST EDITION VOL. 1, SECOND EDITION OF VOLS. 2 AND 3. Original blue cloth, exteriors faintly rubbed and small tear to bottom edge of second volume, still an excellent set. Volume 1 from the library of Thomas Fiske (1865-1944), professor of mathematics at Columbia, and stamp in Volume 3 of René de la Vallée Vital of Brooklyn. First edition of Volume 1, second edition of Volumes 2 and 3. The greatest single contribution to logic... Read More
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