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by WOOD, Fernando
1855. Wood was the notoriously corrupt ‘copperhead’ mayor of New York city, whose term of office was marked by gang riots and corruption in the police force. His second term re-election was due to the actions of the New York gang the Dead Rabbits, who took names from the city cemeteries and added them to the voter rolls. Dean (1817-90) was a lawyer from New York; in 1855, shortly after this letter was written, he was appointed justice of... Read More
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Personal Recollections of Harvey Wood. With an introduction and notes by John B. Goodman III
by WOOD, Harvey
Pasadena, CA: Privately Printed, 1955. Beige cloth backed blue paper boards with front cover titled in black and spine titled in gilt, map end-papers, dust jacket. Prospectus laid-in. Fine in sunned and lightly frayed dust jacket. Number 194/200 copies signed by John Goodman and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press for the Zamorano Club.
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Medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion
by WOODWARD, J.J., OTIS, G. A.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1870. FIRST EDITION. With hundreds of tinted lithographs and chromolithographs, and more that 1000 text engravings, which include maps, statistical tables, surgical instruments, and more., Original green cloth, gilt lettered; overall in fantastic condition. First and only edition of the most remarkable work on military medicine. These volumes contain a detailed overview of medical and surgical conditions encountered during the Civil War. The work was prepared under the direction of Army Surgeon General Barnes but... Read More
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Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States armies as observed during the present war.
by WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1863. FIRST EDITION. Later half-cloth and marbled boards. An excellent copy with the small blindstamp of West Virginia University. First edition, the variant printing in which the dedication to W.A. Hammond appearing on p. [v] has been replaced by a note indicating corrections to several tables. Written to assist physicians who were not familiar with diseases common to the army, Woodward reports on his own findings and observations of diseases that affected the... Read More
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Diseases of the heart: their diagnosis and treatment
by WOOSTER, David
San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft & Company, 1867. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, title and author in gilt on spine; small tear to the back of the spine, minor waterstain to bottom of first few gatherings, otherwise a fine copy from the library of Edward Shapiro, M.D. with his bookplate on the paste-down. First and only edition of Wooster’s first book. This is a fascinating look at heart disease from the physician’s point of view. The author endeavors to... Read More
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Genera Avium
by WYTSMAN, P.
Brussels: Verteneuil & Desmet, 1914. FIRST EDITION. With 43 fine chromolithographic plates, many finished by hand-coloring. All 26 parts in their original printed wrappers and in excellent condition. Preserved in a folding cloth box with a spine label. First edition. This is the complete set of serial monographs on various groups of birds, with contributions by leading British and European ornithologists such as Sclater, Bowdler Sharpe, Ogilvie-Grant, Hartert, Hellmayr, Salvadori, and others. The magnificent color plates after paintings by... Read More
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Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864. Nos. 1 to 44; Nos. 45 to 78
by LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
New York: By the Loyal Publication Society, 1864. FIRST EDITIONS. With the original printed wrappers bound in. Half-calf and cloth, calf-backed marbled boards. From the library of Admiral George Henry Preble with his signature; another ownership signature of D.W.C. Clarke. First editions of the complete set of pamphlets published by the Loyal Publication Society, whose purpose was to publish and distribute material “of unquestionable loyalty throughout the United States . . . in the army and navy, and in... Read More
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A communication from the Regents of the University, transmitting a report of a committee of the Regents of the University, appointed to visit the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York. Made to the Senate, January 26, 1826
by [NEW YORK]
Albany: Croswell, Barnum & Van Benthuysen, 1826. Disbound. Stained and foxed. First edition. In 1814, Columbia University Medical School merged into the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a move that was made in an attempt to stymie what was then seen as a period of decline for the medical school. By the date of this report, there was widespread feuding between professors and trustees. The Regents appointed a committee to visit the College and to make a report to... Read More
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A six months tour through the north of England
by YOUNG, Arthur
London: W. Strahan, etc., 1770. FIRST EDITION. With 27 engraved plates (14 folding) and six folding printed tables. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked at a later date with later endpapers. Perforated stamp of Hill Library Saint Paul on each title page and small stamp on verso; generally a very good copy. First edition. Young here shows his pragmatic nature and gifts of critical observation while providing realistic statistical information. One of his many outings to survey the agricultural lands of... Read More
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Conservative perineal prostatectomy. Part first; part second. In Stereo-Clinic [Section XII] by Howard A. Kelly
by YOUNG, Hugh H.; [KELLY, Howard A.]
Troy, NY: Southworth Company, 1910. FIRST EDITION. With 44 mounted photographs (as stereo cards). Preserved in the publisher’s slipcase (as issued). Stamp of Mercy Hospital, Durango, Colorado. First edition of each part. In an earlier work from 1905, the father of modern urology, Hugh Hampton Young (1870-1945), described his outcomes with perineal prostatectomy for both benign and malignant cancer. The major insights from this earlier work include: – prostate cancer occurs in approximately 10% of cases of benign... Read More
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Quaestiones medico-legales. in quibus eae materiae medicae, quae ad legales facultates videntur pertinere, proponuntur, pertractantur, resolvuntur ..
by ZACCHIA, Paul
Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1651. THIRD EDITION. Full contemporary vellum yapp edges; wormhole trailing through first 16 leaves. Overall an excellent copy with an early ownership inscription on the title. Third edition, first printed in 1621. Divided into three sections , the first contains decisions of the Rota Romana during the author’s time serving as the official advisor. The Rota Romana is the highest judicial appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church. The other two sections cover questions of human physiology. He... Read More
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Mikotaj Kopernik: 1473-1543. 45 tablic
by ZAMECZNIK, Stanislaw; ZAMECZNIK, Wojciech; BIRKENMAJER, Aleksander
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo “Sztuka”, 1953. COMMEMORATIVE PRINTING. With 45 numbered loose plates and 12 unnumbered loose plates, all in the publisher’s blind-stamped folio with the publisher and title printed in red on the front cover. Errata slip laid in. An excellent copy. A commemorative publication of the anniversary of the birth of Copernicus first pubished in 1933. The plates include portraits of Copernicus and da Vinci, photographic reproductions of manuscripts, photographs of the monument in Torun, Poland as well as... Read More
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Del modo di fortificar le città
by ZANCHI, Giovanni Battista Bonadio de’
Venice: Pinio Pietrasanta, 1554. FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural border, separate leaf with portrait of the author, 17 decorative woodcut initials and 8 woodcut text illustrations (5 full-page). Bound in decorative modern boards. Other than a couple of very small and mild damp stains, a lovely large copy. First edition of the first Italian book devoted exclusively to fortification of cities. It was preceded only by Durer’s Etliche underricht, zur befestigung der Stett (1527). Italian works by Valle... Read More
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Nachtrag zum Versuch einer zuverlässigen Nachricht von dem kirchlichen und politischen Zustande der Stadt Hamburg in den mittlern Zeiten
by ZIEGRA, Christian
Hamburg: Widow of Christian Simon Schroeder, 1775. ONLY EDITION. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards (spine repaired, some loss). Old library bookplate and stamp of Haverford College. Internally fine. Only edition of this chronology of the history of Hamburg covering the years 1555-1614. Compiled from the manuscripts of the late Hamburg archivist Nicolas Wilkens, the concise, numbered points outline ecclesiastical and political events in the German city. Wilkens was elected keeper of the archives in 1721 and used the... Read More
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Zoologie géographique. Premier article l’homme
by ZIMMERMANN, E.A.G.
[n.p.]: De l’Imprimerie française de Cassel, 1784. FIRST EDITION. Small woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf-backed pasteboards, spine worn with very small piece missing at foot, otherwise an excellent copy printed on very thick paper. Ownership inscription dated 1817 on fly-leaf. First edition in French, first printed in Leipzig in 1778. Zimmermann (1743-1815) was a professor of natural history in Bronswik and ranked among the important thinkers of his era, best remembered for authoring... Read More
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