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1781réf. 6170Breslau: J E Meyer 1781. First Edition. Contemporary paste paper boards. Good; front endpaper excised; label abraded. 8vo 20 3 - 380 2 - errata pp. Rosenberg presents a complete regimen of diet exercise counsel on temperament etc. The book is most interesting for its dietary section and recommendations. Absent from Blake. J E Meyer hardcover books
1807réf. 6751Copenhagen: F Brummers 1807- `09. First Edition. contemp. three quarter leather. A good set with some scuffing. 8vo. There is a frontis. An original work documenting the medical history and municipal provisions for medical care of the city of Copenhagen. It covers everything form hospitals to suicide statistics. Absent from Waller and Wellcome. F Brummers hardcover books
1848réf. 2092Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1848. First Edition. Disbound. A good copy; some overall age darkening. OFFPRINT. 8vo. An interesting discussion analyzing the responsibilities of the state authorities to citizens and the impact of medical ordinances and jurisdictions upon the offices and operation of municipal government. Hirsch III 668-' 69. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht unknown books
1991réf. 627186New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. xix 414pp. Illustrated in black and white. Light wear at the spine ends and spine titling a bit rubbed near fine in price-clipped else near fine dust jacket with light wear and one tiny tear. In a jacket blurb Jim Jarmusch states taht "Low Life is very likely the most fascinating book ever written about New York City." Author's first book. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
1942réf. 49086Washington DC: National Negro Health Week Committee United States Public Health Service 1942. Very Good-. Washington DC: National Negro Health Week Committee United States Public Health Service 1942. First Edition. Quarto pictorial bifolium 30.5cm. Margins a bit worn with small loss at bottom spine corner not affecting text old horizontal fold ink splatter to upper panel. Good to Very Good. Promotional literature for the 28th annual National Negro Health Week first introduced by Booker T. Washington with the encouragement of the anti-lynching advocate Monroe Work in 1914. The organization was primarily run by Monroe until 1931 when it was taken over by the US Public Health Service. This year's objective was to create "Opportunities in the National Defense Program for Improvement of Community Health." The interior two panels open up to a collage of photographs and illustrations highlighting Black health professionals health journalists better schools and the introduction of community centers. Rear panel provides a day-by-day schedule of events for the week including mobilization day home health day community sanitation day and both adult's and school health and safety day. National Negro Health Week Committee, United States Public Health Service unknown books
1944réf. 95809London: HMSO 1944. Paperback. Good. photos illustrations 104p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Corners and ends of backstrip rubbed. Jointly prepared plans for the transitional period of two years after the hoped-for end of Worlld War II. We are not sure where the funding for this was to come. HMSO paperback books
1972réf. 92551n.p. 1972. Paperback. Very Good. 178 unnumbered pages. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Minor cover soil. A few pages about the program etc. but most of the content is congratulatory adertisements by individuals businesses and local chapters. We found no listing for anything by the Purple Cross Nurses in OCLC but did locate a listing for a copy of this program at the Library of Virginia in an archive of material from a local chapter of the I. B. P. O. E. of W. We don't know exactly what the Health Department and the Purple Cross Nurses did or what training the Purple Cross Nurses may have had. A minority of the women pictured in this volume are wearing traditional nurses' uniform. The printed welcome from the Grand Directress of the Purple Cross Nurses identifies this at their seventh annual program with the first being held in 1965. paperback books
1992réf. 627040New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Oblong quarto. 99pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of the black portions of the jacket a little rubbed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1961réf. M14833Ann Arbor Mich.:: Edwards Bros. 1961. 1961. 4to. viii 4 557 pp. Illus. Original navy-blue blind and gilt-stamped cloth pink printed dust-jacket; jacket faded & worn. Very good copy. Edwards Bros., 1961. hardcover books
1889réf. M14690Concord NH:: Republican Press Association 1889. 1889. 1 year 12 issues. 8vo. 2 288 pp. Some figs. index. Original brick-red blind- and gilt-stamped cloth by Crawford & Stockbridge Binders Concord NH with their ticket. Bookplate and embossed stamp on title of the New Hampshire Historical Society; Inscribed by the author/editor to the New Hampshire Historical Society 1898. Very good copy. Scarce. "All published." Containing all 12 parts of the first and only year of this publication on public health. / Goodness – after reading some of the comments that the editor published I wonder! This first 7 comments I read are more toward funny and quackery than toward good advice and health as intended. / Good healthful advice is surely intended but really it is a statement of social norms and gossip. Among the stories and contributions printed How long to sleep – How to use milk and avoid its dangers – Contagious and infectious diseases in New Hampshire – To make Koumiss a sweet drink made with champagne – Our insane poor – Sunshine – Employment for young women – A comic cure for insomnia – Muscle and Mint value of muscle culture – The non-ventilated school-room – Lard and oleomargarine – Hot-air inhalations in phthisis etc. Republican Press Association, 1889. hardcover books
1915réf. M14490Columbus:: The F.J. Heer Printing Co. 1915. 1915. 8vo. xviii 438 pp. 101 illustrations index. Later full maroon gilt-stamped buckram. Some browning of title cellophane tape mend to title gutter small ms. Notation '5272'. Ex-library copy: Mayo Clinic Library bookplate the title perforated with their stamp. The industrial revolution in America with Ohio being a primary example health concerns abound in all industrial occupations. Occupational hazards including lead poisoning ventilation dust fatigue foul odors venereal diseases etc. The F.J. Heer Printing Co., 1915. hardcover books
1977réf. M14364Washington DC:: GPO 1977. 1977. Series: Fogarty International Center Proceedings no. 37. 8vo. xvi 370 pp. Figs. tables index. Gilt-stamped dark red cloth. Ownership signature of Willard Goodwin. Nice copy. Proceedings of a conference with papers by numerous attendees. The organization of the 25 papers is divided into four sections: I: THEORIES OF STONE FORMATION: Birdwell Finlayson George H. Nancollas William G. Robertson Martin I. Resnick John L. Meyer H. Fleisch; II: GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF STONE DISEASE: Scott B. Halstead Aree Valyasevi & Sakorn Dhanamitta Valyasevi & Dhanamitta & Bhinyo Susilavorn Soemilah Sastroamidjojo Adel H. Loutfi & Gilane Abdel Hamid Farakh A. Khan Mahin Sadre & Mohsen Ziai Sardinder Man Singh Amrit Lal Aurora Andre de Vries & Abraham Weinberger R. Kadivar & M. Tabatabai; III: METABOLIC INTERRELATIONSHIPS: Lawrence G. Raisz Howard Rasmussen & Philippe Bordier Hibbard E. Williams Andre de Vries & Oded Sperling; IV: TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF STONE DISEASE: William C. Thomas Jr. & Marjorie H. Malagodi Lynwood H. Smith Loutfi Valyasevi & Dhanamitta & Siripath Watthana-Kasetr & Robert Van Reen. GPO, 1977. hardcover books
1830réf. M11919Philadelphia:: L. Johnson 1830. 1830. "4th improved edition." 8vo. 385-90 381 pp. Foxed throughout not hindering legibility. Original red cloth spine paper title label; front cover detached but present ffe loose extremities worn spine chipped. Rear free endpaper early ownership signature. As is. RARE. The first volume of a pioneer American health journal published from 1829-33. It features a selection of fascinating perspectives on medicine including analyses of the effects on health of headwear wine and malt liquor consumption mealtimes and water drinking among other things as well as considerations of race and longevity quacks mothering and more. On tobacco: "'A Victim of the Weed' is desirous of knowing whether he can at once abandon his pipe and segars or must part company in a gradual manner. Our advice is to desist immediately and entirely from the use of tobacco in every form and in any quantity however small" 220. On race: "The differences in this respect are primitive in the different races; the mucous body or varnish which constitutes the layer between the true skin beneath and the outer covering or cuticle being white or nearly so in the European or Caucasian races; yellowish in the Mongul or African; and black in the African" 146. On the education of girls: "Under twelve years of age it should be an invariable rule that the hours of close application should never exceed those of amusement and exercise" 267. Contains nos. 1-24: September 9 1829 through August 25 1830. L. Johnson, 1830. hardcover books
2018réf. 338216Cologne: Taschen 2018. hardcover. fine. Annie Leibovitz. Illustrated with numerous b/w and color photographs. Small 4to pictorial boards. Cologne: Taschen 2018. Fine. Taschen unknown books
réf. 3786First Edition; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket in a decorative box that is unopened in shrink wrap thus as new and unread. A clever presentation of this book housed in a box like a pack of cigarettes; uncommon in an unopened state. Will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Picture is a stock image showing a copy that has been opened Assouline hardcover books
1992réf. 394Florence: Leo S. Olschki 1992. Very Good. 8vo; 223 p. Cloth in d.j. Essays on the history of book production in the Adriatic basin from the 15th century to the 18th century. Byzantine Islamic and Western culture meet on the Adriatic. Leo S. Olschki hardcover books
réf. 11099PIERALISI Sante. IL PRECONIO PASQUALE CONFORME.DEL CODICE BARBERINIANO. Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta 1883. Small folio. Original wrappers. 65 3 pages 5 folding plates. First edition. An interesting account of illumination of books and manuscripts in Italy with five folding illustrations 13 x 37.25 inches; partly unopened. Worn. unknown books
1978réf. 136659New York: SCAPHA 1978. Three issues of the newsletter on 8.5x11 inch sheets 4 6 and 4 pages respectively foxed and worn pages loose but all present. Not found in OCLC. Update on activities of the group one year after its foundation with planning notes for activities at the American Public Health Association meeting in the fall. SCAPHA unknown books
1961réf. 122446MI: Edwards 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12th. Fine in an about Very good dust jacket. Hardcover is a nice clean copy almost new. Dustwrapper torn and fading some rubbing spine lightly browned. Edwards hardcover books
1984réf. 209490Emmaus Pa: Rodale Press 1984. Hardcover. Fine. Fine. Rodale Press hardcover books
1994réf. 151978PA: Rodale Press 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good. Hardcover nice clean text corners lightly bumped. Rodale Press hardcover books
1987réf. 141242IN 1987. Very Good. Illustrated by Jan Brown-Checco. Very good. unknown books
1962réf. 122875Ann Arbor MI: Edwards Brothers 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 20th revised. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover is a nice copy almost new. Dustwrapper torn at spine ends and corners lightly browned soiled and worn. Edwards Brothers hardcover books
1925réf. 24167Paris: Au Editions De L'Ibis 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Multi colored boards spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Very good in slightly worn decorated slipcase. Saude Jean. 74 pages in text. 34 x 26 cm. Limited edition copy 396 of 415 copies signed by Jean Saude. Twenty pochoir illustrations some in multiple progressive states 31 plates in total. The text which includes a history of the pochoir process and detailed practical instructions is decorated with large initial letters and head-and tail-piece designs in pochoir. It remains the definitive explanation of the technique. Publisher's chemise with pochoir labels to covers endpapers in pochoir original pochoir illustrated card slipcase painted on all 5 panels repairs at joints and corners rubbing to panels rubbing to chemise custom morocco-backed box. Au Editions De L'Ibis hardcover books
1996réf. 229626various cities: various organizations 1996. 9x12 inch white folder containing newsletters brochures and handbills from various AIDS organizations including a cover letter fact sheet from GMHC combination therapy booklet Treatment issues newsletter Treatment Alert Project Inform Fact Sheet on protease inhibitors various organizations unknown books
