Boston: Tomas Groom & Co., Stationers, 1862. Single sheet of job printing, completed with 7 lines of manuscript [~ 30 words], and signed by Ms Gray. Woodcut of an eagle & flag to receipt left edge. Oblong format: 4-5/8" x 8-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Ms May... More
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed [on] U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION Letterhead.; Addressed to Rev. E. McCravath. June 8th, 1865. Philips, N.](/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
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. 3rd edition. 337, [7] pp. Last 6 pages adverts. Portrait and two suites of illustrations. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8". Blue cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamped lettering and red cross decoration. More
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
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
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
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
[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
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
(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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., (1942). 1st printing (?). 64 pp. Black & white photographic illustrations by Lea Waterman; cartoon drawings by Jim McMenamy. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, stapled. Essentially a nurse's basic training manual, covering a mryiad of subjects (simple patient diagnosis, care, food, etc). More
(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
San Jose: Tucker Studios, (n. d.). Ca early 20th C. Oval b/w photograph [5-1/4" x 2-5/8"] of a nurse. Onion-skin protector. Mount: 11-1/4" x 5". Mount tipped into a plain black construction paper folder, flip-style. A nice photograph of a nurse in period garb, cf. Sharf, The Fashionable Nurse, 1910... More
San Jose: Tucker Studios, (n. d.). Ca early 20th C. Oval b/w photograph [5-1/4" x 2-5/8"] of a nurse, aspect shows head to mid-thigh. Onion-skin protector. Mount: 11-1/4" x 5". Mount tipped into a plain black construction paper folder, flip-style. A nice photograph of a nurse in period garb, cf... More
Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1847 - 1848. 1st US Edition. viii, [9] - 525, [5]; viii, [9] - 552 pp. Volume I with frontis. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & boards stamped in blind. Yellow eps. Fry once described in the... More
![NURSING - REFORM For The INSANE. [drop title]. Edward Cowles.](/pictures/thumb/45143.jpg?v=1542150260)
[Washington, D.C.?]: 1887. 1st separate printing. [2], 16 pp. Frontispiece, captioned with "Fifteen Nurses. Class of 1886. McLean Asylum Training - School. Composite Made by Notman. From The Century Magazine for November, 1887." 8vo. Self-wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Apparently an offprint, which notes the piece... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). FULL SIGNATURE Of NIGHTINGALE. Photographic image: 3-1/2" x 2" [CDV?]. Frame: 14" x 9-5/8". Light peach-colored matte, with grey border to each piece. Letter excerpt reads: "where I am to send the Blue Books. / Ever yours faithfully / Florence Nightingale" More
Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1916. 1st printing of the 5th Revised Edition. [5] - 511, [1 (blank)], 12 pp. Glossary & Index follow text. 12 pages of adverts at rear, noting other Nursing books published by Saunders. Illustrated. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Maroon vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. More
