(n. p.): Englander Beds, (n. d.). 1st printing thus, ca mid-1920s. 40 pp. Each model bed illustrated with half-page photographic image, plus a small vignette photographic image of a hospital where Englander beds are used. 11-13/16" x 8-15/16". Grey paper wrappers, stapled, printed in blue & brown. 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
London: Mr Kilburn. H. Lenthall. Successor. 222, Regent Street. (n. d.). Ca 1856. Photographer imprint under photograph as well as to verso. Image: 3-7/16" x 2-1/8" on stiff card stock, 4-1/8" x 2-1/2" Image a bust portrait of Nightingale on her return from the Crimean War, facing left. 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 - Sulphur... 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
[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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, (n. d.). Single sheet, printed recto & verso. 5" x 3". Buff printed paper. More
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