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
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A TEXT - BOOK Of NURSING. For the Use of Training Schools, Families, and Private Students.
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
HOME NURSING. Arranged According to the Revised Syllabus of the St. John Ambulance Association Compiled by a Committee Principally from the Original Manuscript, Written at the Request of the Association, by Mildred Heather-Bigg, R.R.C.
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
HINTS In DOMESTIC PRACTICE And HOME NURSING.
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
HOSPITAL For CONSUMPTION, and Diseases of the Chest. Instituted 25th May, 1841.; In-Patient Branch, Manor House, (Near the Royal Hospital,) Chelsea. Out-Patient Branch and Offices, No. 20, Great Marlborough Street.
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
An APPEAL.
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
LOT Of EIGHT DRUGGIST / PHARMACY LABELS.
(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
A HANDBOOK Of INVALID COOKING. For the Use of Nurses in Traning-Schools, Nurses in Private Practice and Others Who Care for the Sick. Containing Explanatory Lessons on the Properties and Value of Different Kinds of Food, and Recipes for the Making of Various Dishes.
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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WOMEN . . . OUR WOUNDED NEED YOUR CARE! [. . . ] Join a Hospital Company.
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
A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of NURSING LITERATURE, 1961 - 1970.
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
A MANUAL Of INSTRUCTION In The PRINCIPLES Of PROMPT AID To The INJURED. Designed for Military and Civil Use.
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
DOCTOR, NURSE & HOSPITAL STORY WRITER'S GUIDE. "Said Book" Supplement Number Two.; A Wight's Local Color & Picturesque Speech Chap Book.
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
ILLUSTRATED AMBULANCE LECTURES. To Which is Added A NURSING LECTURE in Accordance with the Regulations of the St. John Ambulance Association for Male and Female Classes.
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
REPORT Of The FIRST ANNUAL MEETING Of The NATIONAL FIRST AID ASSOCIATION Of AMERICA HELD At The NEW CENTURY BUILDING, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
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
FRIENDLY CAUTIONS To The HEADS Of FAMILIES And OTHERS, Very Necessary to be Observed in Order to PERSERVE HEALTH And LONG LIFE: with Ample Directions to NURSES WHO ATTEND The SICK, Women in Child-Bed, &c. Third Edition with Additions.; The NURSE'S GUIDE, or Companion for A Sick Chamber [half-title].
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
HISTORY Of The ESTABLISHMENT Of The BELLEVUE TRAINING SCHOOL For NURSES.; Read at the Waldorf-Astoria on the Evening of March 6, 1899.
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
WAR NURSE. The True Story of a Woman Who Lived, Loved and Suffered on the Western Front.
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
TROISIEME CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE Des SOCIETES De LA CROIX-ROUGE Tenue a Geneve du 1er Au 6 Septembre 1884. Compte Rendu.
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
AMERICAN POCKET MEDICAL DICTIONARY.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, (n. d.). Single sheet, printed recto & verso. 5" x 3". Buff printed paper. More
The CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL Of NURSING. Circular and Address.
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
The BOYS In WHITE; the Experience of A Hospital Agent In and Around Washington.
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
The LONDON PRACTICE Of MIDWIFERY; To Which Are Added, Instructions for the Treatment of Living-in Women, and the Principal Diseases of Children, Chiefly Designed for Students and Early Practitioners.
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
A NURSE'S GUIDE For The OPERATING ROOM. Published Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, St. Joseph's Hospital.
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
GRADUATING EXERCISES Of The TRAINING SCHOOL For NURSES Of FRIENDS' ASYLUM For The INSANE. Frankford, Philadelphia. Fourth Day Afternoon, Sixth Month 12, 1907. [Together With]: GRADUATION INVITATION To The NURSES GRADUATING EXERCISES For MISS JENNIE WAGGONER, 1907.
(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
REPORT Of The SECOND ANNUAL MEETING Of The NATIONAL FIRST AID ASSOCIATION Of AMERICA HELD At The PARKER HOUSE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Friday, June 7th 1907.
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