250 résultats
réf. 261343New York: M.B. Brown Printing and Binding Company. Original poster. Color lithograph. 21.5 x 14 inches. WWI era slogan. This poster is vivid blue with white text. Good condition with collection inventory number in margin. M.B. Brown Printing and Binding Company unknown books
1943réf. RWOROHI00drpOxford University 1943. Very Good. Work Projects Administration. The Ohio Guide. NY: Oxford University 1943. 2nd printing. 634pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped spine ends. Small sticker-stamp on rear free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with small losses in spine ends and top corners. . Rear pocket glued to rear pastedown with large fold-out map inside. Oxford University unknown books
1940réf. 579671Lincoln Nebraska: Woodruff Printing Company 1940. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Drawings by Paul Gibson. Octavo. 48pp. Stapled orange wrappers printed in black. Staples partially pulled through very good. Historian activist and W.E.B. Du Bois literary executor Herbert Aptheker's copy with his ownership Signature. Woodruff Printing Company unknown books
1922réf. 1403480Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 62 plus 17 illustrated plates. In Fair condition. Gray and purple paper wrappers; both covers detached complete loss of material to spine. Text block remains intact. Light age toning and heavy chipping along all edges of both covers. Age toning to text block. with moderate wear along the edges and dust soiling on the top edge. Light soiling along the fore edge of several pages and plates; page contents unaffected. Housed in a card-backed archival sleeve. Shelved in Room A. . The Autumn 1922 issue of the celebrated and influential avant-garde literary magazine The Little Review. Includes photography by Man Ray a short piece by Gertrude Stein and an essay by the editor Jane Heap referred to in the magazine as "jh" reflecting on the The Little Review's past serialization of James Joyce's novel Ulysses the subsequent obscenity trial and the shift in public opinion after the full novel's release earlier that year. . 1403480. Special Collections. Shakespeare and Company hardcover books
1938réf. 543147Bayonne NJ: The New Jersey Commission to Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement by the Swedes and the Finns on the Delaware Jersey Printing Company 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Dr. Amandus Johnson. Octavo. 165pp. Map endpapers. Many plates. Small owners label front pastedown some foxing on first and last couple of leaves else near fine in spine-sunned very good dust jacket with a few small chips. Scarce in jacket. The New Jersey Commission to Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement by the Swedes and the Finns on the Delaware (Je hardcover books
1845réf. List3743Cincinnati Ohio 1845. Autograph letter signed "F. G. Macy" 4 pp. 8 x 10 inches on a folded sheet addressed to his brother John B. Macy. Excellent. A letter bluntly discussing Democratic Party factionalism written scarcely three months after the inauguration of James K. Polk and less than four months before the annexation of Texas formally took effect. The recipient John B. Macy would represent Wisconsin in Congress from 1853 to 1855 before perishing in the burning of the steamer Niagara on Lake Michigan in 1857. At the time of this correspondence he appears to have been embroiled in a political controversy connected to Treasury Secretary Robert J. Walker and the Democratic press. After briefly reporting the death of a relative's child Francis G. Macy turns to national politics commenting on newspaper attacks directed against his brother and expressing frustration with Cincinnati editor John Brough then one of the most influential Democratic journalists in Ohio. The letter captures the bitterness that remained after the Democratic nomination struggle of 1844 when supporters of Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk battled for control of the party: "You perceive I suppose the continual attacks the Inquirer makes on you; this morning it is out on you & Drinker as well as upon Lake. It appears Brough is determined to prostrate you if possible. He has drawn out Father Ritchie in defence of Mr. Walker but demands of Walker or the President to dismiss you immediately. My opinion is that no notice should be taken of his Billingsgate trash but let him go on till Drinker gets his paper underway." Macy believed the attacks stemmed not from policy disagreements but from lingering resentment over the defeat of Martin Van Buren's presidential ambitions and the rise of Polk under the influence of Treasury Secretary Robert J. Walker: "It appears that Brough is determined to put down the Statesman & all other papers that give their support to the present Secretary of the Treasury but I am mistaken in Mr. Walker if he can be influenced by Brough or made to succumb to him & his faction. . Of one thing you may rest assured Brough will never forgive Mr. Walker for defeating Mr. Van Buren & placing Mr. Polk in power for he looks upon the Secretary as the life of the party who was determined that Mr. Van Buren should not again be President & however much he may laud Mr Polk it is only that he may inflict more fatally the wound which he hopes will ruin Mr. Walker." Macy was a self-described "uncompromising whig" but though he was disappointed by the election results he did report grudging admiration for the victors. Referring to Walker's role in securing Polk's nomination and election he observes: "Now I should have felt under many obligations to Mr. Walker if he had killed off both Van & Polk for then good honest Whigs would have once more been in power & Mr. Clay triumphant but as he did not do that good deed and offered us fair fight & manfully vanquished us we submit with as good a grace as possible & wait our time to try it again. . At the same time we hope the Government will be so conducted as to reflect nothing but honour on our Country & I have no hesitation in saying that in relation to Annexation & the conduct of Mr. Polk up to this time & the means he is adopting to secure the peace of the Country meets with the hearty approbation of one uncompromising whig at least." An engaging political letter linking the Polk administration the Texas annexation crisis Democratic Party factionalism and future Wisconsin congressman John B. Macy whose political status made him one of the most famous of the Steamer Niagara victims. books
1702réf. 756291702. The Collection of Crown Revenue Great Britain. Customs Administration. Carkesse Charles Compiler. The Act of Tonnage and Poundage And Rates of Merchandize With The Further Subsidy; The Old Impost; The Additional Impost; And All Other Duties Relating to Her Majesties Customs Now Payable Upon any Sort of Merchandize Imported or Exported. Digested into an Easie Method Whereby may in One View be Found the Several Duties upon Each Particular Commodity Specified in the Book of Rates Or any Other Act of Parliament. As also the Twenty Seven Rules Annext to the Book of Rates; And the Table of Officers Fees. To Which is Added A Collection of Such Statutes And Part of Statutes Relating to Her Majesties Customs As Passed Since the Act of Tonnage and Poundage. 12 Car. 2. And are Now in Force. Likewise An Abridgment of Several Statutes Now in Force and Use Which were Made Before the Said Act of Tonnage and Poundage. As Also The Duties of Excise on Imported Commodities: The Ports of England and Wales: Lawful Keys And Wharfs in the Port of London: With the Tables of Scavage Package Balliage Packers-Porters Duties And Usual Tares. Together with an Alphabetical Index to the Whole. London: Printed by Charles Bill And the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb Deceas'd; Printers to the Queens Most Excellent Majesty 1702. xxiv 768 52 pp. Folding woodcut table. Publisher advertisement to final page. Octavo 97-3/4" x 4-3/4". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands retained somewhat edgeworn early lettering piece blind and gilt fillets and gilt publication date to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior light smudges to a few leaves light soiling to title page two clean tears and light edgewear to folding table. $350. Updated edition. In existence from the time of Edward II to the Customs and Excise Act of 1787 Tonnage and poundage was a set of import and export taxes levied for the crown by Parliament. This compilation provides an excellent perspective on their implementation by clerks collectors and other dockside officials. Like many books of this kind they are valuable sources of detailed information that is difficult to find elsewhere. First published in 1660 it went through several editions the last appearing in 1737. Goldsmiths' Library of Econo. unknown books
réf. 603323Winston-Salem North Carolina: Hastings House 1940. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Preface by Roscoe E. Lewis. xii 380pp. Blue buckram stamped in blue lettering. Ex-library with the usual markings lacking the rear endpapers hinges cracked spine darkened with cloth soiled a good only copy lacking the scarce dust jacket. An important work detailing the arrival of the first Africans in 1619 until the rise of Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries with interviews from hundreds of slaves extensive research and literature relevant to the times. Hastings House hardcover books
1961réf. 382140Washington: Government Printing Office 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. House Documents Nos. 55 and 56 87th Congress 1st Session bound together with two other documents in one volume. Quarto. xxiii 278; xvii 186pp. black and white photographs and folding plates. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Ex-library with three small ink stamps front board and pastedown else no other markings. Moderate soiling to the boards very good. NASA's very scarce fourth semiannual report on Satellites Sounding Rockets Manned Space Flight Lunar and Planetary programs and other NASA programs and research. Bound with the equally scarce third annual report on America's activities in aeronautics and space exploration. Also included in this volume is Document No. 221: Operations of the Fulbright Program of the Department of State 158pp. and Document No. 234: Fifth Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program 110pp. OCLC locates only one copy of the Third Annual Report in the Fields of Aeronautics and Space and no copies of NASA's fourth semiannual report. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1938réf. 152845New York: National Service Bureau 1938. First Edition. First Edition. The Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project sponsored and published a series of monographs throughout the late 1930s this volume being a compilation of articles on folk songs and spirituals throughout the US published in the New York Times by Robert Winslow Gordon. Gordon founded the Archive of American Folk Song later renamed the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress in 1928 and was a pioneer in the use of Edison cylinder recordings to document folk music. Very Good in wrappers with light soil toning and wear to the extremities. National Service Bureau unknown books
1960réf. 382129Washington: Government Printing Office 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Two House Documents Nos. 361 and Nos. 454: 86th Congress 2d Session bound together in one volume. Octavo. vii 164; 180pp. black and white photographs and folding plates. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Ex-library with three small ink stamps front board and pastedown else no other markings. Light soiling to the boards very good. The very scarce second annual report on the NASA space flight program advanced aeronautics and space research and the NASA organization; and equally scarce third annual report on Project Mercury and other major programs experimental missions and related research. The first report is commoner. No copies in OCLC. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1942réf. 542394New York: A.S. Barnes and Company 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Charles Ethrige Minto. Small quarto. 87pp. Illustrated with vignettes mostly by Latin-Americans. Text in Spanish and English. A little rubbing at the spine ends this near fine in very good or better dust jacket with a couple of modest chips at the crown and front panel. Compilation of directions by several dozen native authors of Latin-American and Native American particularly Navaho games and songs. Uncommon especially in jacket. A.S. Barnes and Company hardcover books
1944réf. 307866Government Printing Office 1944. Fred Cooper. Poster. Color lithograph. Measures 27 3/4" x 19 7/8" This original World War II-era poster was part of an anti-inflation campaign initiated by the Office of Price Administration designed to encourage American citizens to support the war effort. During the previous world war the US experienced an inflation rate of 62%. When WWII began President Roosevelt established the OPA to prevent price-gouging and unfair access to consumer goods. The effort was considered successful with inflation between 1940 and 1944 rising only 28%. The woman wears a red and white striped blouse contrasted against a blue background with stars evoking the American flag. Her hair is coiffed and she wears makeup as well as a white ruffled apron over her blouse. In this way the poster demonstrates how women could contribute to the war effort without sacrificing their femininity a somewhat mixed signal that speaks to cultural dynamics in the United States in the 1940s. A smaller graphic overlays the poster reading "Produce and Conserve / Share and Play Square / Food Fights for Freedom." In very good condition with some wear to margins and along original fold lines. A closed tear to left margin has been professionally repaired. Some cracks and chips to lower margin. The poster is otherwise clean and vibrant. Government Printing Office unknown books
1941réf. TB33750Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service WPA and CCC 1941. First Edition. Both volumes of this complete two volume set are in very good and near fine conditions. Both are small quartos of 10 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches bound in adhesive bindings in light brown cloth covered boards with darker brown text on the spines and front boards. The cloth at the head and heel of volume I is rubbed and worn and the upper fore corners of the front and rear boards are bumped but professionally straightened and strengthened. Volume II shows only light wear to the cloth at the head of the spine and the text block for this volume was made from two-hole punched paper. Volume I is made from standard un-holed paper. Both volumes contain four index tabs each. In volume I: Northwest Inland States; Pacific States; Yellowstone; and Yosemite; Volume II: Central States Southwestern National Monuments; Southwestern States; and Territorial Parks and Monuments. These two volumes contain 664 pages of bibliographies on 79 national parks and national monuments each one with its own pagination. This bibliography is not listed in any of the WPA or American Guide resources held by Town's End Books. OCLC locates only five institutions owning the book version of this title. The forward contained in volume I mentions that this project started in 1936 with: where "much credit is due Mrs. Hazel Hunt Voth for originally laying out the program and directing it until her resignation in April 1939." Hazel Voth's other other major accomplishment was A Bibliography of Yellowstone National Park which is reprinted in this set. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, WPA and CCC hardcover books
1937réf. 545906Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Early reprint. Octavo. 675pp. Illustrated with photographs. with map in a pocket on the rear pastedown. Ownership signature of author and Nobel Prize-winner Alexis St. L. Leger better known as Saint-John Perse on front fly. Neat underlining and notes likely in the hand of Leger as well as edgewear on the boards very good without dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1969réf. 81679Washington: NASA 1969. 16mm. Film Reel. Very Good. Film reel containing 14 1/2 minute promotional film about the upcoming Apollo 11 Flight which would attempt to put Americans on the Moon. Still in original canister and strapped mailing container. Photocopied "Sound-on-Film" script for the film laid in 13p. plus title-leaf; stapled in upper left corner. While we guarantee it to be playable we haven't attempted to view this film other than to unspool the first bit and look at the first few frames. Appears to be 16mm. Identified on script as Aeronautics and Space Report Program #54 June 1969. According to the script the three astronauts are shown in training and each speaks about the upcoming mission as does Dr. Wernher von Braun. According to the script animation was used for portions of the film landing techniques etc. OCLC lists this promotional film but appears to provide no information as to where it is held. NASA unknown books
1939réf. 152848San Francisco: Works Progress Administration 1939. First Edition. First Edition. The Works Progress Administration's Division of Social Research sponsored and published a series of monographs throughout the late 1930s this volume being a thorough history of regional San Francisco burlesque. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers with brief wear at the heel. Works Progress Administration unknown books
1936réf. Cat333N.p.: International News Photos 1936. Press photograph 8 x 10 inches by Arthur Rothstein distributed by International News Photos with original caption on verso dated 1936. Minor edge wear and toning to caption else very good. In the mid-1930s prolonged drought across the Great Plains combined with falling agricultural prices forced thousands of farm families into foreclosure and displacement. The crisis central to what would become known as the Dust Bowl led to widespread liquidation of farms and personal property often through public auctions held under distress conditions. Offered here is a stark press image documenting one such sale in Nebraska. The original caption reads in part: "This farm auction shop is typical of the mid-west where farmers driven from their land by the drought are forced to sell at auction their farm machinery household effects in order to procure enough money to move to more fertile spots. The government is aiding the stricken farmers through loans and relief. It is thought that not less than 100000 families may be moved from their farms by the government." The photograph shows the exterior of a "Sale Room" with equipment and household goods assembled for liquidation. Rothstein working for the Resettlement Administration produced some of the most widely circulated images of rural dislocation during the Depression. Images such as this were distributed through press agencies to illustrate both the severity of the crisis and the federal government's expanding role in relief and resettlement and were reprinted later. This is an attractive original copy with fine contrast with 1936 press markings verso. International News Photos unknown books
1945réf. 9116District of Columbia: Government Printing Office 1945. Poster 48.3 x 53 cm. folded as issued. Government Printing Office document 1945--O-629743. A government-issued poster encouraging Americans to grow victory gardens to support the war effort. The poster depicts an arrangement of various vegetables including peas in the shell cabbage and carrots in the foreground. In the background is a view of a garden with a man and woman cultivating and weeding. In an official wartime activity begun two and a half decades earlier in the Great War Americans were urged to supplement the food they had available for personal use by planting vegetable gardens both to support the war effort and due to food shortages and rationing. The gardens known as "victory gardens" were promoted widely by both the government and industry. Gardens were planted during World War I as well but were called "war gardens" until the end of the war when the term "victory garden" came into use. Creased at the folds otherwise very near fine. Government Printing Office unknown books
1970réf. 231521970. War on Drugs Press photographs of drug enforcement addiction treatment and anti-violence intervention in Houston New Orleans and El Paso 1970-1992 documenting how the War on Drugs functioned across policing rehabilitation public messaging and newspaper circulation. Several prints retain typed caption slips assignment sheets and Houston Chronicle stamps locating the group within newsroom and wire-service use rather than private snapshot production. The strongest images show not only arrests and seized evidence but the wider apparatus surrounding narcotics policy: the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's El Paso Intelligence Center U.S. Customs canine inspection work in Houston a New Orleans anti-drug and anti-violence rally at the Desire Housing Project and rehabilitation scenes tied to Bridge House and Charity Hospital detox with Black urban communities especially central to the visual language of late 1980s coverage. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin press photographs all 8 x 10 inches Houston El Paso and New Orleans 1970-1992. The group includes a February 16 1970 press image identified as "Dope Raid" showing officials examining a crate of seized drug paraphernalia; a 1971 "Drug raid" photograph; and a 1979 image of the control center of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's El Paso Intelligence Center with consoles screens desks and seated staff in a surveillance-heavy operations room. A likely 1975 evidence display isolates a syringe spoon folded packet and narcotics sample against a dark ground with an attached caption describing a "$5 package of cocaine" and a glassine of heroin; another early 1970s image bears a clipping caption about Drug Enforcement Administration agents seizing a tug and a large marijuana cache. Late period photographs shift toward street-level enforcement and public intervention: a 1990 Houston image captioned "Drug Traffic Houston" shows U.S. Customs using a dog named Magnum to search vehicles; a 1992 Houston Chronicle photo records Sgt. G.U. Rodriguez inspecting a Corvette after a chase connected to a drug dispute involving fake drugs and real guns; one image marked "Operation Crackdown" shows a Texas officer handcuffing a young Black man on the lawn outside an apartment building; another captioned "Crowd at service ctr. made into booking desk" shows a packed intake scene around tables and paperwork. The New Orleans photographs are especially strong: one print shows Dr. Keith C. Ferdinand speaking beneath a banner reading "Preventing Violence in the Black Community" at an anti-drug and violence rally at the Desire Housing Project in 1988; another shows a group discussion at Bridge House captioned on verso as "John speaking about crack addiction;" a third presents Ron identified on verso as "a crack addict seeking rehabilitation" seated in silhouette by a wired window at Charity Hospital detox with a wall poster reading "Charity is a Winner!" The group traces American drug policy imagery from early raid and evidence photographs in 1970s press usage through the institutional expansion of intelligence coordination neighborhood sweeps addiction treatment and anti-violence campaigns during the crack era. These photographs depict both the scale and the impact of the War on Drugs: federal intelligence and customs work local police enforcement medical detox residential recovery and public-facing community rhetoric all appear here in concrete captioned form. Editorial markings stamps clipping residue light creasing and surface wear from newsroom handling; overall good condition. The concentration of captioned Texas and Louisiana press images reveal how narcotics policy was staged enforced and narrated in the urban Gulf South as well as depicting the community response and its notable effect on African American communities. unknown books
1661réf. 754811661. London: 1661 & 1663. London: 1661 & 1663 Two Scarce Books of Rates Great Britain. Customs Administration. A Subsidy Granted to the King Of Tonnage And Poundage And Other Sums of Money Payable Upon Merchandize Exported and Imported. Together with a Book of Rates Agreed Upon by the Honorable House of Commons And Hereunto Annexed. Also an Act for the Encouraging And Increasing of Shipping And Navigation; With an Act to Prevent Frauds And Concealments of His Maiesties Customs And Subsidies. London: Printed by Chr. Barker 1661. ii 180 pp. Bound with Rules and Instructions for the Tare of Goods & Merchandize Imported into Any Port of England. Revised and Published by the Farmers of His Majesties Customs. As a Direction to All Their Officers Concerned Therein. London: s.n. Printed Anno Dom. 1663. ii 14 pp. 12mo. 5-1/2" x 3". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards rebacked retaining existing spine with blind fillets endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and a few minor stains to boards small hole to fore-edge of front board moderate rubbing to board edges corners bumped and worn. Light toning to interior faint dampstain to first few leaves of first work light soiling to a few leaves. $1500. Only edition; first edition. Two scarce books of rates for customs administrators under Charles II. The first work also includes the text of the Navigation Act of 1660 and the Customs Act of 1660 which significantly restricted colonial trade by requiring that certain goods such as sugar tobacco and indigo be exported only to England and that only those "born within the allegiance of our sovereign lord the King.or naturalized" could become merchants. OCLC locates 4 copies of the first work in North America Harvard New York Society Library UCLA Yale and 1 copy of the second Harvard. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1608 1712. English Short-Title Catalogue R228060 R171955. unknown books
réf. 295372Cincinatti New York: Strobridge Litho Co. PAUS Herbert Andrew. Original poster. Color lithograph. Page measures 35 1/2" x 56 1/2". Homefront poster from World War I encouraging Americans to save food. This vividly colored lithograph depicts a Red Cross nurse a wounded soldier a mother and infant and other people in need standing in front of a Iron Cross and pointing to a quote by John Greenleaf Whittier. Folded as issued some cracks along folds. Repair to right margin. Mounted on linen. Beautiful colors. Strobridge Litho Co unknown books
1886réf. 1416566New York: The American Art Association 1886. Limited Edition #20/50. Other. Large Quarto 305 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is beige with no lettering. Bound in publisher's wrapper. Moderate age toning chipping and soiling to wrapper. Spine shows moderate wear with rubbing abrasions and chipping to head and tail. Text block has deckled edges with some pages uncut. Moderate age toning to page edges mild age toning to interior. Scattered mild to moderate foxing throughout. Occasional faint offsetting across from unprotected illustrations. Foxing and staining to fore edge of frontis piece page. Contains 29 pencil-signed etchings. Shelved in oversize room A. Limited Edition #20/50. 1416566. Special Collections - Upstairs. The American Art Association unknown books
1850réf. #4258vo. 215 x 160 mm. 8 ½ x 6 ¼ inches. 306 leaves chapters separated by blanks. 19th century leather backed marbled paper boards; inner hinge cracked edges bumped some abrasion to the head of the spine; sound. Beautifully written manuscript volume containing an extensive discussion of library management and practices written by an anonymous Spanish author in the middle of the 19th century. This dissertation organized in 70 chapters begins with a discussion of the library profession and its importance to civil society. His first chapters describe the "Archive" with reference to Spanish monastic governmental and diplomatic collections that have been preserved. He focuses his attention on Aragon Mallorca Navarra and Santiago. He turns to France to furnish some interested information on the archives in Paris before getting into the chapters on classification of materials and the creation of inventories. After nearly 200 leaves of text on the subject of archives the authors turns his attention to libraries. From the beginning he takes a historical approach focusing his attention on both books and manuscripts mentioning the collections at Cambridge University. Paleography is a subject he spends some time describing and then he moves into the history of printing typography Gutenberg and the spread of printing to Spain. The final dozen chapters are devoted to the rules for managing a library lessons in classification and inventory control. He quotes from both DeBure and Brunet in his lessons on cataloguing. A rather remarkable piece of work thought to be unpublished. An examination of both United States and Spanish national collections turned up no reference to this anonymous piece of library scholarship. books
1784réf. 11036Vienna: Auf Kosten der Korrespondenz Expedition 1784. First Edition. Full contemporary calf. Fine. 8vo 4 5 - 156 2 - errata pp. 4 large engraved folding plates. A landmark monograph and historical turning point in the design construction and management of large municipal hospitals. Fauken was charged with the design of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna. It was in fact a renovation of the extensive building complex of the almshouse for soldiers and the poor already extant from the late 17th century. The building was a Baroque masterpiece originally conceived and designed by Prince Karl-Eusebius von Lichtenstein. There were long galleries with many windows and the basic building was well suited to its new role as a medical establishment for a large city where patients could actually be cured. At the outset Joseph II regarded his new hospital as a teaching institution and insisted on the most up-to-date scientific principles in its organization and maintenance. The old galleries of the almshouse were subdivided corridors eliminated and the spaces then re-organized to accommodate single patients by wards. The new hospital was organized as if it were five independent hospitals and the only new structures added to the complex were the asylum and maternity ward. This separation permitted better care and purposeful planning of the facility. There was generous cross ventilation and light and strict adherence to rigorous standards of sanitation and patient care. Assorted charitable foundations were amalgamated or dissolved to provide general and ongoing funding for the institution. Fauken addresses all these issues in the book offered here as well as making an argument for the sound economic sense of good healthcare for the populace. Thompson / Goldin The Hospital . pp. 109 - 114; Flamm Hospital Hygiene; OCLC cites one copy CU in America. Auf Kosten der Korrespondenz Expedition unknown books
