DIETETICS For The NURSE.
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1939. Sixth Edition. viii, 268 pp (including Index). Small 8vo. Blue cloth binding with dark blue lettering. Pale blue dust jacket. A primer on food, and its cookery, for nurses in training. More
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1939. Sixth Edition. viii, 268 pp (including Index). Small 8vo. Blue cloth binding with dark blue lettering. Pale blue dust jacket. A primer on food, and its cookery, for nurses in training. 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
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
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
(n. p.): (Friends Asylum for the Insane), (1907). 1st printing. 2 sheets, one folded once. Green and white seal for the "Friends Asylum" to graduation invitation. Program: 5-3/8" x 4-1/2" (when folded). Invitation: 4-5/16" x 5-9/16" (Oblong). Both items printed on white paper. More
Boston: The National First Aid Association of America, 1907. 1st edition. 66 pp. B/w photographic images throughout. 8-3/8" x 6". Red printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Not located on OCLC. Rare in the trade. More