[Elkhart, IN]: Dr. Miles Laboratories, Inc., (n. d.). Circa 1935. 29, [1] pp. B/w photographic images and illustrations. Oblong 24mo. 4-3/4" x 6-1/8". Stapled white wrappers printed in color, title in orange. Promotional booklet for Dr. Miles medical products, thinly disguised as a dieting guide. Sections on recommended meal plans..... More
(n. p.): 1908. 1st Printing thus. Unpaginated, though 14 pages. 6-7/16" x 3-38". Printed grey paper wrappers, stapled. From the Incorporation: "That the purpose for which said incorporation is formed is, to celebrate the admission of trained nurses to the United States Army, to commemorate the work of nurses in..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. 1st printing of the Revised & Enlarged Second edition. 391, [7] pp. Vocabulary & Index conclude text. 4 pages of adverts at rear. Frontis. Intra-textual cuts. Charts, including one inserted fold-out. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original publisher's maroon cloth with gilt letter &..... More
London: St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, E.C.I., (n. d.). Ca 1918. 272, xvi, [1] pp. 16 page catalogue of Nursing gear at rear. Illustrated with cuts & drawings. 16mo. 5-1/4" x 4". Original light brown pebbled cloth binding with white stamping to spine & front board. More
Boston and Providence: Otis Clapp & Son, 1898. Early edition [3rd?]; 1st published in 1895. 170, [2 (blank)] pp (including Index). 'Advertising Matter', pp. 129 - 165. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 7-5/8" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Scarce [especially in this binding format] early edition of this work..... More
London: Printed by W. H. Cox, 5, Great Queen Street, 1842. 1st Printing. 20 pp. Laid-in engraved calling card for "Mr Philip Rose". Front cover with wood engraved image of the Hospital. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-13/16". Off-white stiff stock paper covers, sewn. Now the Royal Brompton Hospital, the hospital is..... More
[Philadelphia]: Grant, Faires & Rodgers, Printers, 1876. 1st Printing. 16 pp. "Rules for Nurses in Training", pp. 8 -13. Application, pp. 14 - 15. 8vo. Original publisher's printed blue-grey paper wrappers, sewn. The hospital was incorporated in 1861, and from that date its mission included "the practical training of nurses..... More
Edinburgh: 1878. 1st printing (presumed). Bifolium, printed p. 1 only. 10-1/2" x 8-1/8". Printed self-wrappers. A printed APPEAL for contributions to Baroness Burdett Coutts' Turkish Compassionate Fund to benefit refugees from the conflict in Constantinople during the winter of 1877 - 1878. The body of the text, a ten stanza..... More
(n. d.). Circa 1890s - 1920s. 8 labels, printed recto only. Sizes vary. Largest 2-7/8" x 3-3/8"; smallest 1-1/4" x 2-1/2". Mostly white paper printed in dk blue, black or green; one multicolored. Labels include: - "Dr. Haynes' Arabian Balsam" for colds, coughs, sprains, burns, bruises, etc., Providence, RI -..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1898. A later printing of a work first 1st published in 1893. Cf. Bitting, p. 47 [with the 1906 edition]; Wheaton & Kelly 707. Not in Cagle. vii, [1 (blank)], 323, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's gunmetal-grey cloth..... More
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Recruiting Publicity Bureau United States Army, 1945. 1st Edition. Broadside. Linen-backed. Large illustration of a woman in a blue WAC uniform carrying a surgical tray. Poster: 37-3/4" x 25-1/4". Backing: 39-1/2" x 27-1/4". Cream paper printed in blue, grey and white. Backed in linen with white paper coating to poster..... More
London: The Library Association for The Royal College of Nursing, 1974. xiii, [1], 223, [1] pp. 12" x 8". Blue cloth stamped in gilt with blue box. Pink dj printed in black. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. 1st edition (Cordasco 801658). xiii, [1 (blank)], 224 pp (including Index). Color frontis, "General Plan of the Circulation". 96 intratextual figures (No. 73 folding). 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original blue cloth binding with white red cross adhering cloth belly band. "The object of..... More
East San Diego, California: The Wight House Press, (1936). 1st Printing. 16 pp. 16mo. 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". White paper wrappers, printed in green, stapled. "The purpose of this series of Chap Books is to provide writers with authentic local color and professional & picturesque speech covering various fields of endeavor..... More
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1892. Third Edition. 1st published in 1886. xv, [1 (blank)], 142, [2 (adverts)] pp. Index concludes text. 60 intratextual figures. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's olive green cloth binding with black stamped lettering to spine & front board. Pale yellow eps. "Ambulance work has..... More
Boston: The National First Aid Association of America, 1906. 1st edition. 50 pp. Frontis + many b/w photographic images throughout. 8-1/8" x 6". Grey printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A record found on OCLC, but no institutional holdings listed. Rare in the trade... More
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys. 1804. 1st US edition, with Notes and Additions (American Imprints 6561; Austin 1073). [2], [vi], [ix] - xii, 163, [5 (adverts)] pp. Numerous mispaginations, though text continuous. Errata slip tipped onto ffep. 12mo: a^6 A - O^6. 6-3/4" x 4". Period full mottled..... More
New York: The Knickerbocker Press, [1899]. 1st edition. 12 pp. Typographical ornament to front wrapper. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's printed pale green paper wrappers, stapled. A scarce publication relating a speech given not too long after this storied Training School for Nurses celebrated it's quarter century mark [founded in..... More
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1930. 1st edition. [6], 265 pp. Crown 8vo. Black cloth binding stamped in gilt. Red topstain. White dust jacket with color pictorial of a nurse to front panel. Originally published in serial form in Cosmopolitan in the late 1920s, and falsely advertised as a journalistic account drawn..... More
Genève: Au Siège Comité International de la Croix-Rouge, 1885. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy, INSCRIBED from Barton, "To my friend, / Dr. Joseph Gardner / with sentiments of esteem and cordial regard. / Which words cannot express. / Clara Barton. / Washington D. C, March 15, 1889." Further, a 2 line..... More
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, (n. d.). Single sheet, printed recto & verso. 5" x 3". Buff printed paper. More
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge School of Nursing, 1905 / 1907. 1st printings (presumed). 2 items, one a single sheet folded once, and the other a booklet of 8 unpaginated pages. Circular: 10-1/2" x 8". Address: 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". White printed paper. Includes: The Cambridge School of Nursing Circular of Information from..... More
New York: Printed by Lange & Hillman, Steam Book and Job Printers, 1870. 1st edition (Neviins I, p. 91). vii, [3], [9] - 274, [2 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. Inserted plate p. 58. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & gilt..... More
New - York: Published by James V. Seaman [et al], J & J Harper, Printers. 1820. 1st American Edition [thus], From the Fourth London Edition, Corrected and Improved (American Imprints 2004; Austin 1160). One of 3 1820 imprints of this title [all printed by Harper], no established priority. OCLC records..... More
Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co., (1902). 1st edition (Cordasco 00-4838). 127, [5 (blanks & index)] pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations throughout. 9-3/8" x 6-1/8". Maroon cloth binding, gilt printed lettering to spine. More
