(divers locales): 1947 - 1991. The core of the collection dates 1953 - 1980. This phenomenal collection consists of 894 letters, postcards, and greeting cards, 27 loose clippings, three church pamphlets, and two black and white school portrait photos. The letters are primarily to and from Martha Lee Newman Westgate..... More
Cincinnati: Wm. H. Cook, Publisher, 101 West Sixth Street, 1866. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, signed as "the Author". Not in Cardasco. 408 pp (including Index). Illustrated with cuts. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper. At..... More
Buffalo, N. Y. Bliss Bros. Artistic Photographers, [1890]. Elaborate photographer imprint to verso. At bottom is inked "Compliments / of / Hersich - St. John / 1890 / H. H. T. S." Image: 5-3/8" x 3-7/8". Mount: 6-9/16" x 4-1/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Both brothers were..... More
New York: Printed at Kay Printing House, Inc, (1929). 1st Edition. xvi, 240 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographic images. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6". Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to backstrip & front board. The author a graduate of Lincoln Hospital, New York City, and for 18 years served as..... More
Liverpool / London: A. Holden, 48, Church Street / Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1865. 1st Edition (Bishop & Goldie 14). ASSOCIATION COPY. 103, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece, lithograph of the Liverpool School. Plan of the School. Map of Districts, p. 103. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-3/8". Original publisher's flexible bright..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. 1st Edition. x, 401, [5 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. 8vo. Dark blue flexible leatherette binding, with gilt stamping. Goodrich, when she authored this volume, was Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing. Goodrich "envisioned the nursing and medical professions as equals, independent..... More
(n. p.): [1888]. 1st Printing. 24 pp. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8". Printed pale green paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Dix "was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States..... More
London: Harrison, 59, Pall Mall, Bookseller to the Queen. (n. d.). 1st edition, early issue with advert eps & 'Right of Translation' slug to t.p. (Bishop & Goldie 4i; Garrison & Morton, 1612; 100 Famous Medical Books, 71). ASSOCIATION COPY, x 2. 79, [1 (blank)]. Printed glosses. 8vo. 8-3/8" x...... More
New York: William Wood and Company, 1917. 1st printing of the 4th Revised edition. xiii, [1 (blank)], 500 pp (including Index). Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. "In this edition it has been deemed advisable to omit the part on drill regulations for..... More
Milwaukee, Wis. St. Mary's Training School for Nurses, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1917? 48 pp. 5" x 2-7/8". Buff paper covers, printed with black lettering, red edgestain. Housed in a black leather publisher portfolio, with gilt stamped "Marillac Guide" to front cover. Scarce publication from this Nursing school..... More
Blue cotton cap, with white linen band at front, with sewn Red Cross patch to front. 12-3/4" in length; 5" in height. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Philadelphia: 1864 - 1865. 1st Printing. 8 pp per issue. Fare set lacks No 13, issued over a year later, Sept 11, 1865. The rare 4 pp Fare prospectus bound-in at rear of volume. Masthead wood engraving [Leland del, Rea Sc]. The occasional wood engraving in text, with Fare ground..... More
(n. p.): Underwood & Underwood, (n. d.). Ca pre-WWII. Verso with Underwood stamp, as well as affixed, typed label, describing the scene at the VNS building. Overall size: 8" x 10-1/8". Image: 6-3/8" x 9-1/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Image shows a gathering of mothers at the..... More
Chicago: Gibson Art Galleries, 195 - 197 Wabash Ave. [1899]. Grey mount, photographer stamped imprint under the b/w albumen photograph. Card: 7-1/4" x 5-1/4". Image: 5-1/2" x 3-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Regarding Mench, in "The Inter Ocean" newspaper, June 7, 1899, of Chicago, Ethel A. Mench..... More
St Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, 1917. 1st Edition. 374 pp (including Index). 130 illustrations. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4". Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1923). Fourth Edition, Rewritten and Much Enlarged. xv, [1 (blank)], 949, [7] pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts at rear. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. Blue-grey cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & front board. Printed buff paper dust jacket. Uncommon..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. 1st printing of the "New Edition, Enlarged and Revised" xiv, 315, [1 (blank)], 32 pp. Text block mostly unopened. 32 page March 1872 publisher catalogue at rear. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Light brown eps..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1877. Sixth Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED by Nightingale, all in pencil, on the half-title page. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 517, [3] pp. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Modern binding of full brown calf, stamped in blind. Nightingale presents the book to "Nurse Webb", adding "delivered from..... More
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 261 Pearl Street. R. Craighead, Printer. 53 Vesey street, 1855. 1st US Edition. vi, [7] - 69, [3] pp. Last 2 pages publisher advert. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with title gilt stamped to front board. Pale yellow eps..... More
London: Bemrose & Sons, 1890. 1st Edition. xx, 102, xxi - xxxviii pp. Roman numbered pages filled with adverts for medicinal, health-related products, trusses and foods. Frontispiece albumen photograph of Sister Eva. Facsimile inscription underneath. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's red cloth binding..... More
Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1945. 5th edition, 5th printing. 579, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated. 8" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Printed pale blue paper dust jacket. More
Oakland, California: Published by the Student Nurses of the Fabiola School of Nursing, 1925. 1st Printing. 74, [6 (adverts)] pp. Atricles throughout on divers aspects of nursing, e.g., pp 39 - 41, "A Little Glimpse of Public Health Nursing", Elizabeth Gordon Fox & pp 42 - 43, "Peaks in the..... More
Cleveland, Ohio: 1921. 1st Edition. 67, [11] pp. Illustrated with drawings and with b/w photographic images. 10-1/2" x 7-7/8". Powder blue pebbled sheep binding with blue floral patterned-paper eps. Gilt stamped title to front cover. NB. Binding appears later, not original. Scarce yearbook from this School of Nursing in Cleveland..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, 1873. 1st Edition (Atwater 3137). 72 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Text illustrated with 2 cuts of thermometers, and a few graphs. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5". Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with black stamping. Born in France, Seguin emigrated..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880. A later issue of the 1st edition of this important early American nursing text, initially published in 1879. Cf. Cordasco 70-1507. 266 pp (including Index). 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Publisher's original green cloth binding, with gilt stampd spine lettering & black stamped lettering..... More
