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

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

[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

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..... 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

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

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

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

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

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