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1911334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
2021ref. BN169907National Academies Press 2021. 2021. Softcover. High and Rising Mortality Rates Among Working-Age Adults High and Rising Mortality Rates Among Working-Age Adults Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities National Academies Press paperback
1964Pages 79-150. Features: Ringmasters - A History of the 401st Bombardment Group (H); Mystery of the Dixmude (French navy rigid airship disaster in December 1923); The Old Rifle Range Airport - A field near Kitty Hawk now all but forgotten; Crusader De-Tails - Part II; Mortality in Army Aviation - from a 1914 War Department document describing in detail the 11 fatal aviation accidents which occurred since the initiation of Army aviation in 1908; Wedell-Williams "We Will Jr." - Wedell-Williams Air Service, Inc. resulted after one-eyed Texas flyer James Wedell met Louisiana lumber baron Harry P. Williams in 1928; Last of the Red-Hot Pilots - Flight Officer Ralph K. Hofer and his action over the English Channel in 1943; Mustangs of the Eighth - The NA-73, later renamed the Mustang I, was ordered by the Royal Air Force while the Battle of Britain reached its climax; Spirit of American Youth - The epic coast-to-coast flight of Richard [Dick] E. James, only 17, of Flushing, NY, in 1930; Waco's Military "Ds" - During 1937-38 the Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio manufactured and exported a number of Model D biplanes to Latin American countries, the WHD, S2HD, and JHD; Governor's Island Aviation School; Bibliography; Cover photo of a Douglas sleeper transport over Manhattan; and more. Profusely illustrated with informative black and white reproductions of archival photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this extremely informative issue. Book
1786ref. 129236à Paris, chez l’Auteur, M. DCC. LXXXVI 1786 2 volumes. In-8 20 x 12,5 cm. Reliures de l’époque veau havane marbré, dos lisses ornés de petis fers encadrés de roulettes dorées, pièces de titre maroquin grenat, plats encadrés d’un triple filet doré, XXIII-389-386 pp., 5 tableaux repliés, tables des matières. Ex-libris de la bibliothèque du marquis de Brosse-Montendre. Reliures épidermées, coins émoussés, intérieur frais.
1821ref. 5560Massachusetts 1821. Beautifully hand-colored manuscript on one sheet with all text to recto. Measuring 245 x 215mm. Retaining its bright colors; with chipping and loss to all edges not affecting images or text. A unique tribute by a mother to her late daughter. The bright colors and floral arrangements of the present piece suggest that it was originally intended to document joyful family milestones. Titled "Register" its first section declares that it is of "the Family of Adolphus Draper who was born August & Married Belinda Axtell Sept. 18th 1816 who was born July 9th 1797." Below this is added less happy news however. "Sacred to the memory of Rebeckah Draper only child of Adolphus & Belinda Draper who was born Oct. 5th 1817 & departed this life August 26th 1821." In contrast to the piece's visual vibrancy Belinda adds a final verse to the piece's foot: "Rebeckah tho thou art in heaven and we on earth May this one hope delight us That thou will hail our second birth When death shall unite us. Where worlds no more can sever Parents & child forever." A unique and tragic piece of maternal history available for further research into family genealogy child mortality rates and causes of death the symbolic significance of illustrated flowers and maternal mourning practices of the period. unknown
1821ref. 5560Massachusetts 1821. Beautifully hand-colored manuscript on one sheet with all text to recto. Measuring 245 x 215mm. Retaining its bright colors; with chipping and loss to all edges not affecting images or text. A unique tribute by a mother to her late daughter. The bright colors and floral arrangements of the present piece suggest that it was originally intended to document joyful family milestones. Titled "Register" its first section declares that it is of "the Family of Adolphus Draper who was born August & Married Belinda Axtell Sept. 18th 1816 who was born July 9th 1797." Below this is added less happy news however. "Sacred to the memory of Rebeckah Draper only child of Adolphus & Belinda Draper who was born Oct. 5th 1817 & departed this life August 26th 1821." In contrast to the piece's visual vibrancy Belinda adds a final verse to the piece's foot: "Rebeckah tho thou art in heaven and we on earth May this one hope delight us That thou will hail our second birth When death shall unite us. Where worlds no more can sever Parents & child forever." A unique and tragic piece of maternal history available for further research into family genealogy child mortality rates and causes of death the symbolic significance of illustrated flowers and maternal mourning practices of the period. unknown books
1739FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT, MONUMENTAL, AND BEAUTIFULLY-PRODUCED HISTORY OF LONDON. viii, [7], 800, [14] pp plus folding frontispiece engraved view of London and 24 additional full-page engravings and etchings (three folding). COMPLETE. Laid in is the rarely-encountered folio broadside "An Account of the Number of Persons Dying at the Several Ages Undermentioned for Ten Years Past", printed in 1738 or 1739 (from which we learn, for example, that of 1000 children born alive, only 495 survived to age 9). In addition to the beautiful full-page plates, this volume is illustrated with numerous smaller engravings (depicting the gates of London, including the infamous Newgate Prison), over 100 woodcuts of the arms of the various guilds, and assorted typographical ornaments. Includes a lengthy account of the history of London, a description of all of the Churches (with hundreds of epitaphs, of notable and unknown people, given in full); a description of the politics, the commerce, the schools, the inns, the courts, the hospitals, the arts, the ale-houses, the alms-houses.... A complete listing of the streets. An extensive description of Westminster and nearby areas of Middlesex. Fully indexed. PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER, WITH LARGE MARGINS. Large folio. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND in recent quarter vellum and marbled boards. A few short, closed tears to the folding plates (no pieces missing), and some spots of foxing, else FINE AND BRIGHT. An extremely good copy of a rare and important book.
1665ref. 148683London: printed and are to be sold by E. Cotes 1665. The great plague of 1665 First edition of this complete annual sequence of the London bills of mortality for 20 December 1664 to 19 December 1665 issued at the height of the Great Plague. First instituted in 1592 and placed under the control of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks in 1611 the bills formed the essential statistical substrate for John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality 1662 the foundational work of modern medical statistics. Graunt 1629-1674 a member of the Common Council of London had analysed mortality data for several years before publishing his seminal study which had already reached its second edition with a third in press by 1665. Wing attributes London's Dreadful Visitation to "John Graunt of Bucklersbury" an author of religious tracts but not of statistical works; this is almost certainly a misattribution for the celebrated statistician. Most bibliographies cite the work anonymously. The work was printed for the Parish Clerks' Company by Ellen Eleanor Cotes active 1652-70 widow and executor of Richard Cotes the City of London's official printer. Surveyed in 1668 she was operating three presses with two apprentices and nine pressmen at the Barbican. Both she and her husband produced notable medical books illustrated with large anatomical plates including translations of works by Ambroise Paré and Adriaan van de Spiegel. Cotes contributed the prefatory note "The Printer to the Reader" "I am a Printer no Preacher". Two issues are distinguished by title-page dating: one as here begins "the 20th. of December"; the other "the 27th. of December". Although the folding table is described in the title as integral Goldsmiths' catalogues it separately as a broadside nos. 1759 and 1760 the latter with mourning border. While not exceptionally rare copies are typically found worn defective or lacking the folding table; sound examples are uncommon. Bound up with it are two scarce related broadsides and a copy of Roger Drake Sacred Chronologie 1648 pp. 44; ESTC R206239. Further details of these are available on request. Small quarto 222 x 172 mm. Folding table at rear titled "A general Bill for this present year ending the 19th of December 1665.". Title page text set within a thick black woodcut border decorated with memento mori motifs including a skull-and-crossbones crowned with a winged hourglass under a banner lettered "Memento mori" plus bones picks and spades and full skeletons and three coats of arms above the imprint; woodcut headpieces initials; arms of the Parish Clerk's Company running throughout. Bound with 3 other items in late 18th-century continental half parchment marbled boards labelled "Pot Pourri" and numbered "2" in black. Spine ends lightly rubbed front joint largely cracked but board still holding firmly; blank upper margin of title a little creased very occasional light spotting or rust marks; an excellent copy with several uncut edges. Garrison-Morton 5119 27th issue; Goldsmiths' 1761 27th; Kress 1160 27th; Norman 1386 27th; Wing G-1598A issue not differentiated. hardcover