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 about HINTS In DOMESTIC PRACTICE And HOME NURSING
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 about HOSPITAL For CONSUMPTION, and Diseases of the Chest. Instituted 25th May, 1841.; In-Patient...
[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 about REPORT Of TRAINING SCHOOL For NURSES, Woman's Hospital, Philadelphia. 1876
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 about An APPEAL
(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 - Sulphur... More about LOT Of EIGHT DRUGGIST / PHARMACY LABELS
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 about A HANDBOOK Of INVALID COOKING. For the Use of Nurses in Traning-Schools, Nurses in Private...
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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 about WOMEN . . . OUR WOUNDED NEED YOUR CARE! [. . . ] Join a Hospital Company
[Oakland?]: 1921. 1st Printing. One printed sheet, folded once vertically, to form 4 pp. Page 4 blank. Typographical ornament, p. 1. 7-1/2" x 5". Printed self-wrappers. Oakland California's Samuel Merritt Hospital, with a new School of Nursing, opened its doors in 1909. Here offered a scarce ephemeral piece from just... More about The SAMUEL MERRITT HOSPITAL SCHOOL Of NURSING. Commencement of the Class of 1921 Thursday...
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 about A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of NURSING LITERATURE, 1961 - 1970
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 about A MANUAL Of INSTRUCTION In The PRINCIPLES Of PROMPT AID To The INJURED. Designed for Military...
London: Whitehead Morris & Co., 1897. 4th Edition, Ninth Thousand. Association copy, with Holland's daughter's signature. 39, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Black paper wrappers, with white lettering, stapled. Holland, active in social service & having worked as a director of the Popular Hospital, in 1896, at the... More about A TALK To The NURSES Of The LONDON HOSPITAL. December, 1897
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1956. 1st Edition. 232 pp. 8vo. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Red & blue dust jacket. The book "describes the first three years of a nurse's training at one of the most famous teaching hospitals in the world, Edinburgh Infirmary." [dj blurb]. More about BREAKFAST At NIGHT
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 about DOCTOR, NURSE & HOSPITAL STORY WRITER'S GUIDE. "Said Book" Supplement Number Two.;...
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 about ILLUSTRATED AMBULANCE LECTURES. To Which is Added A NURSING LECTURE in Accordance with the...
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 about OBSTETRICS For NURSES
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 about REPORT Of The FIRST ANNUAL MEETING Of The NATIONAL FIRST AID ASSOCIATION Of AMERICA HELD At The...
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 about FRIENDLY CAUTIONS To The HEADS Of FAMILIES And OTHERS, Very Necessary to be Observed in Order to...
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 about HISTORY Of The ESTABLISHMENT Of The BELLEVUE TRAINING SCHOOL For NURSES.; Read at the...
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 about WAR NURSE. The True Story of a Woman Who Lived, Loved and Suffered on the Western Front
Philadelphia: Edward Trust, Publisher. Press of International Printing Company. 1916. 1st edition thus. [ii (front paste-down)] - xx, 295 [with rear paste-down paginated] pp. Adverts first 20 pages & last 3 pages. Lower margin adverts in text. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. Brick red cloth binding with black stamping. A... More about The PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Of PHYSICIANS And DRUGGISTS DENTISTS And NURSES Of PHILADELPHIA Camden...
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. 1st Edition. vi, [2], 554, [8] pp. 8 pages of publisher adverts at rear. 135 illustrations. Crown 8vo. Publisher's original grey cloth binding with silver title lettering to spine & front board. "Pope's major contribution to her profession was her publications;... More about TEXT-BOOK Of ANATOMY And PHYSIOLOGY For NURSES
Los Angeles: Harry Lee, (1918). [4] pp. Sheet music printed within. 13-3/4" x 10-3/4". Color printed paper wrappers. "Tho' they're not right in the fighting - not a soldier are they slighting. They are helping all our boys, turning sorrows into joys, we must help them all we can..." Rare... More about DON'T FORGET The RED CROSS NURSES
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, (n. d.). Single sheet, printed recto & verso. 5" x 3". Buff printed paper. More about AMERICAN POCKET MEDICAL DICTIONARY
Oakland, CA: The Senior Class of Samuel Merritt Hospital School of Nursing, 1939. 1st printing (presumed). 40 pp. Many b/w photographic images of the students and staff throughout. 9-1/4" x 6". Brown wrappers embossed with gilt design to front wrapper, stapled. "The Nurse's Prayer: May we be strong, and calm... More about The SPLINTER. 1939
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 about The CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL Of NURSING. Circular and Address
