King, J. W.; Menissier, F.MareMagnum
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1982Current Topics in Veterinary and Animal Science Vol 16 Used
1896496 p. + 44 full page plates, some in color. A few plates loose. Age stained. Rear end paper torn. Manuscript ownership of William B. Weirich on first fly leaf. Label of Berl Wager on front paste down. Sm. 4to. 235 mm. Original full black cloth binding, slightly worn. Prepared Under the Direction of Dr. D.E. Salmon. Very good condition. AG BX 1
1857pp. 226, (6) [Index]. Small woodcut illustrations. Age stained. 16mo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, worn and soiled. Text includes a list of domestic medicines and receipts, for example, Lunar Caustic, "very useful in curing bites of rabid dogs." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AG BX 1
1928512 p. + Frontis. Numerous text drawings. End papers foxed. Text age stained. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding, very stained. Well read condition. "During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th century, eugenics was considered a method of preserving and improving the dominant groups in the population; it is now generally associated with racist and nativist elements, as the movement was to some extent a reaction to a change in emigration from Europe, rather than scientific genetics." - Wiki. WOMEN 1
1907664 p. Illustrated with numerous drawings. Age stain. Hinges cracked. 8vo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, very worn. Loss at head and tail of spine. AG BX 1
1928376p. Illustrated with portraits by Zadig. Pictorial decorated title page. Large 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Spine slightly faded. Hardbound. First Edition. Short biographies of nineteenth and twentieth century scientists dedicated to eradicating hunger. MEDICINE2 BOX 10
1878pp. (1) [Head of Ferret drawn from life by A. F. Lydon], 1-40 [Text], 13 [Catalogue of Practical Handbooks], (3) [Advertisements]. May lack title page and original wraps. Text drawings. Stamped ownership of Joseph B. Vandergrift. Monastic stamp. Top edge gold. Marbled endpapers. Remnants of library slip or bookplate on rear paste down. 16mo. Half leather over marbled boards. Gilt lettered spine. Gilt stamp of Vancroft Farm on leather of front board. Hardbound. In 1901, the wealthy industrialist Joseph B. Vandergrift a couple of farms amounting to about 480 acres, and named the property Vancroft. It quickly became a playground for the "rich and famous". The "Monte Carlo of the Ohio Valley" was the site of "bejeweled women", cock-fighting, fox hunts, horse racing on the only figure eight track in the country at the time, bowling, cards, billiards, swimming parties, gambling, drinking, and all sorts of earthly revelry (apparently including ferreting). VERY SCARCE. NATURAL HISTORY BOX 4
1843Full Title: "THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE ON THOMSONIAN PRINCIPLES, Adapted As Well to the Use of Families As to That of the Practitioner. Containing Propositions Illustrative of the Philosophy of Thomsonism. A Brief History of the Symptoms, Peculiarities, and General Course of Disease in its different forms and Varieties; With Practical Directions for Administering a Thomsonia Course of Medicine, Including Various Methods of Administering Vapour Baths and Emetics and A Materia Medica Adapted for the Work." pp. xv, 514 (1)[Ad for Aaron Comfort's Thomsonian Medicine Store. Damp stained. Foxed. Worn contemporary full leather binding. Early manuscript ownership of Dr. Jonathan H. Dorsey ( (Mill Creek Furnace, Huntingdon, PA). "In the early-19th century, thousands of Americans in the trans-Appalachian west turned away from harsh conventional treatments, especially bleeding and purging, and embraced milder, less debilitating therapeutic regimens. Samuel Thomson, a leading spokesman of this movement, said he learned botanic medicine from a female herbalist who cured his wife after a regular doctor had failed. In particular, Thomson believed that cold brought on illness and therefore restoring the body's natural heat offered the quickest remedy. This he accomplished with steam baths, cayenne pepper, and puking by means of Lobelia, a native American emetic." First Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 11
1847pp. 324 + Woodcut frontis. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Dampstain. Foxed. Signatures loose. 12mo. Original binding present, but very poor. Dr. Fitch's advice and information on how to live to one hundred and five would still be of value today. First Edition. SCARCE. Unfortunately, a rather poor example. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 2
1847Two volumes in one. pp. 357; 371 + (2)[Publisher's Advertisements]. 8vo. Contemporary full leather binding, rubbed. The contents include these chapter headings: Practical Medicine (Fevers, Diseases of the Nervous System, Organs of Circulation, Organs of Respiration, Organs of Digestion, Urinary Organs, Toxicology); Surgery (Fractures and Diseases of Bone, Dislocations and Diseases of Joints, Amputations, Organs of Circulation, Organs of Respiration, Alimentary Canal, Organs of Urine and Generation, Diseases of the Skin, Opthalmic Surgery), Midwifery & the Diseases of Women; and various other subjects. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 11
1894pp. xiv, 339, (8)[Testimonials and Ads] + Plus portrait frontis. Slight dampstain. Slight staining. 8vo. Original full leather binding. Gilt stamped spine. Extremities worn. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 4
1911Three volumes. Numerous full page illustrations. 4to. Original full purple cloth binding, gold stamped spine. Nice set. This is a heavy set and will probably require extra post. MED 4. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1859pp. 454 + Plus 5 woodcut and lithograph full page plates showing various tumors. Tall 8vo. Original full brown embossed publisher's cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Crisp copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 1
1886Five Volumes. Illustrated. 4to. Original full black cloth bindings, very slightly worn. Contributors include some of the most distinguished physicians in America. Complete sets of this important and wide-ranging medical work are quite scarce. MED 9
1923pp. xii, 376 + Plus color frontis. Illustrated. Tall 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Gilt stamped spine. Nice copy. MED 7
1819pp. xix, [1]-335. 8vo. Foxed. Contemporary full leather binding, spine worn, joints cracked. Early manuscript ownership of Dr. Jonathan H. Dorsey (Mill Creek Furnace, Huntingdon, PA). First American Edition From the Second London Edition. Scudamore is best known for this treatise on gout. "It is based on the author's observation of about one hundred cases of gout, and contains one of the first contributions to the study of the distribution of gouty changes throughout the body" - DNB. Austin 1714. Quite scarce and important. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 11
1862pp. xii, 317, (16)[Publisher's catalogue]. Slight dampstain. Bookplate. Penciled underlings and notations. 12mo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, old tape repair of spine. Small loss of extremities. One of the most important American ophthalmic texts of the mid-19th century. REF: Gorin, History of Ophthalmology, p. 238; Cordasco 70-3972; DAB, XX, p. 265; Heirs of Hippocrates 1889; Hirsch, VI, p. 283; Kelly & Burrage, Dictionary of American Medical Biography, p. 1307; Albert. Source Book of Ophthalmology, 2521 and 2522. FIRST EDITION. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 3.
1910908p. Numerous photo illustrations and drawings. 4to. Original full green cloth binding. Gilt stamped leather spine label. Nice copy. MED 6
1887pp. 153, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus engraved portrait frontis. Numerous text illustrations. Front hinge cracked. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding decorated in black with horse shoes and a horse; bumped at corners. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED, HORSE 1
1903pp. xxi, 424, (7)[Advertisements] + Plus frontis. Large 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, extremities and spine worn. Scarce. PETS/2
1945332p. + Plus folding whelping chart. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Tall 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, worn. PETS/2
1900np. Small 16mo. Original full printed pictorial yellow wraps. Sewn as issued. Very crisp copy of a scarce promotional. PETS/1
1974224p. Numerous text photographs. 8vo. Original full pictorial glossy binding. Nice copy. PETS/1
1949311p. Text drawings by Arthur Wallace. Decorated title page. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, spine faded. First edition. PETS/1
1944pp. xxiii, 446 + Plus frontis and photographs. Foxed. Large 8vo. Original full dark cloth binding, soiled. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PETS/2