New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1931). 11th Impression of the 3rd Revised Edition. xiv, [2], 404 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Pictorial eps. Dark green topstain. Dust jacket. More about A SHORT HISTORY Of NURSING From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway. 1860. 1st US edition (Bishop & Goldie, p. 15 [not noting this additional Appleton address]; Cordasco 60-1308; 100 Famous Medical Books, 71). 140, [4] pp. Adverts last 4 pages [listing Appleton's '346 & 348 Broadway' address]. 12mo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8"... More about NOTES On NURSING: What It Is, and What It Is Not
[London]: 1791. 1st Printing thus. ESTC shows a 40 pp edition published the year prior (cf. ESTC T89941). [2], 42, [2 (blank)] pp. Title leaf a singleton, 2 mm short, tipped onto B1. Lacks half-title leaf. Fold out chart, "Fabric". 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Disbound, with binding remnants along spine... More about A CONCISE DESCRIPTION Of The ROYAL HOSPITAL for Seamen at Greenwich.; Extracted from the...
![AUTOGRAPH NOTE [ANs], Signed. To G V. Poore, Esq. MD. Dated July 4 1891. Florence Nightingale,...](/pictures/thumb/33402.5.jpg?v=1559067133)
London: 1891. Single sheet of Nightingale's "10, South Street" stationery, with black border. Stationery: 7" x 4-3/8". ANs housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Nightingale inquires about her brother-in-law making a "contribution of Ten Guineas to your congress", i.e., International Congress Hygiene & Demography. More about AUTOGRAPH NOTE [ANs], Signed. To G V. Poore, Esq. MD. Dated July 4 1891
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[London?]: 1878. Single sheet of stationery, with black border, mounted, along with a Lenthall [successor to Mr Kilburn] CDV of Nightingale. The CDV portrays Nightingale as she looked shortly after the Crimean War, ca late 1850s. Stationery: 4-7/16" x 7". CDV: 4-1/8" x 2-1/2". Frame: 11-1/8" x 17-1/4". Matted, and... More about AUTOGRAPH NOTE [ANs], Signed. To Mrs Fulkes. Dated 16 July 1878. [accompanied by ]. Carte -...
[Boston]: Published for the Proprietor, 1854. 4th edition [stated]. 264, 12 pp. Appendix last 12 pages. Primary text within ornamental box in center of page. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. AEG. Pale peach eps. A somewhat uncommon mid-19th... More about The YOUNG MARRIED LADY'S PRIVATE MEDICAL GUIDE,; Translated from the French of P. C. Dunne and A....
St. John, N. B. Barnes & Co., Limited, Publishers, 1917. 2nd edition. 123, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with plates. 12mo.7-1/8" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's blue quarter cloth over faux birch boards with flag graphic to front board. Sub-title: "These Home Letters from an American Girl, Daughter of a Retired General... More about "MY BELOVED POILUS"
Brooklyn, N. Y. C. H. Jordan, 485 Fulton Street, (n. d.). Ca late 1890s. Image portrays the nurse standing next to a small table, on which is found a jar of tonic, and a glass with pipette. Photograph: 5-7/16" x 4-1/8". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16". Albumen photograph mounted on dark... More about CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH Of A NURSE
[Watsonville, CA ?]: (n. d.). Ca early 1900s? Divers sizes. 4 mounted. All now housed in archival mylar sleeves. Here offered a group of 6 early b/w photographs of the Watsonville Sanatorium, also known as the Watsonville Sanitarium. None are dated or credited but all provide exterior views of this... More about SIX HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS Of The WATSONVILLE SANATORIUM
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed [on] U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION Letterhead.; Addressed to Rev. E....](/pictures/thumb/46488.jpg?v=1547323376)
(n. p.): 1865. Single sheet, mss handwriting both sides, 43 lines, ~ 6 words per line, ~ 250 words. Includes a prior owner typewritten transcription of the letter [with, regrettably, some inaccuracies, e.g., Mrs DePew called DePen]. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8". Envelope: 3" x 5-1/4". Envelope with Atlanta June 9th postmark... More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed [on] U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION Letterhead.; Addressed to Rev. E....
Boston: W. A. Butterfield, (1917). 1st printing. xiii, [3], 95, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontis. Facsimile. Internal plate. 16mo. 7" x 4-3/4". Brown cloth backed boards. Dust jacket. This volume the story of a nurse from Masschusetts, Ms Alice Fitzgerald, who served with the British in France, 1916 - 1917, in... More about The EDITH CAVELL NURSE From MASSACHUSETTS. A Record of One Year's Personal Service with the...
New York: Architectural Record Publishing Company, 1918. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the author. [12], 274, [2 (blank)] pp. Profusely illustrated with plans, diagrams & from photographs. Royal 8vo. 10-1/8" x 7-1/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front cover. While well represented... More about The AMERICAN HOSPITAL Of The TWENTIETY CENTURY.; A Treatise on the Development of Medical...
Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1959. 1st Edition. viii, 167, [1] pp (including Index). Extensively illustrated with 94 drawings detailing the many divers tray / trolley layout configurations. 12mo. 5-1/2" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's maroon faux leather flexible covers with gilt stamped lettering. A popular, oft published... More about POCKET BOOK On TRAY And TROLLEY SETTING.; Foreword by McInroy, I. G
Hartford, Conn. Taylor & Huntington, (n. d.). Ca early 1880s. Verso with description of the Sanitary Commission, as well as a publisher blurb on the War series, and an extensive "A Word as to Prices". Dual photographs, domed. Orange mount. Oblong format: 4" x 7". Housed in a clear mlyar sleeve. More about The EVER WELCOME SANITARY COMMISSION. 1199.; Photographic War History. 1861. 1865
[Worcester]: 1956. 1st edition thus. 15 leaves of mylar covered mounting paper, with 7 pages of text: "Dedication" [1 p], "History of The Class of 1956A" [2 pp], "Class Last Will and Testament" [2 pp] & "Class Prophecy" [2 pp]. 21 portrait photographs [5" x 3-3/4"]: 4 faculty & 17... More about SCHOOL Of NURSING. WORCESTER CITY HOSPITAL. Class of 1956 A
New York, NY: U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, (n. d.). Single poster, printed recto only. Large color half-tone illustration by Edmundson of a hopeful and beautiful Cadet Nurse, looking off into the distance in uniform. 20" x 14-1/8". Buff paper, printed in color. The Cadet Nurse Corps program was passed by... More about ENLIST In A PROUD PROFESSION! Join the U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS. A Lifetime Education - Free! If...
(n. p.): (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca late 1887 / early 1888. 24 pp. 12mo. 7-13/16" x 4-13/16". Printed pale green paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Dix, now known as a social reformer, was born to a poor family in Hampden, Maine, and as... More about MISS DOROTHEA L. DIX And HER LIFE - WORK
New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, Printing-House Square, 1869. 1st Printing. 15, [1] pp. Faculty List, p. 2; Graduates of 1869 ["Walter S. Thorne, of California, Valedictorian for 1869."], p. 16. Catalogue of Students, pp 9 - 15. Front cover with wood engraved image of the school. 8vo. 9" x.... More about ANNUAL CIRCULAR And CATALOGUE Of The BELLEVUE HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, City of New York. 1869 - 70
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca early 20th C. The black & white albumen photograph depicts a seated Barton slightly oriented to the viewer's left, face forward, hand on chin, dressed in typical feminine garb of the period. Facsimile signature of Barton's underneath image. Photograph: 5" x 3-3/8". Mount: 6-1/2" x.... More about CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. 1st Edition. viii, [2], 231, [15] pp. 5 pages of publisher adverts follow text. Frontispiece of the author, in her nurse's uniform, from her 1917 passport photograph. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping. "These letters were... More about FINDING THEMSELVES.; The Letters of an American Army Chief Nurse in a British Hospital in France
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1899. 2nd printing of the Revised edition. First published in 1892. 154, [12 (publisher catalogue)] pp. Index concludes text. Illustratedw with a few cuts. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding, with gilt stamped spine lettering. More about OUR SICK And How to Take Care of Them or Plain Teaching on Sick Nursing at Home
India: 1945. Album oblong format: 9-1/2" x 13-1/8". Album brown leather, with colored pictorial tooling to front cover, cord tie. Here offered the extensive archive of Ruth Rodger, a young Monmouth County, New Jersey woman who volunteered to serve in the Red Cross in India during World War II. The... More about ARCHIVE As A WORLD WAR II VOLUNTEER NURSE ASSIGNED To INDIA
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. 1st printing of the 4th "Revised and Enlarged" Edition. vii, [1], 330, [6] pp. 4 pages of adverts follow text. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". Original publisher's grey cloth binding, with black stamped lettering to spine & front board. 4th edition of this popular title originally published in 1890. More about TEXT - BOOK Of MATERIA MEDICA For NURSES
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. 1st Edition. 2 volumes: xvi, [2], 348, [2 (blank)]; [8], 388 pp (including Vol II Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. More about The LIFE Of CLARA BARTON. Founder of the American Red Cross
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca early 20th C. Oval b/w bust photograph [5" x 3-3/8"] of a nurse. Mount: 8-1/2" x 6-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A nice photograph of a nurse in period garb, cf. Sharf, The Fashionable Nurse, 1910 - 1970, p. 23. More about ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH Of A NURSE
