NURSING Of CHILDREN.
Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1945. 5th edition, 5th printing. 579, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated. 8" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Printed pale blue paper dust jacket. More
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ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL Of NURSING.; Conducted Under The Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine.
Cleveland, Ohio: 1921. 1st Edition. 67, [11] pp. Illustrated with drawings and with b/w photographic images. 10-1/2" x 7-7/8". Powder blue pebbled sheep binding with blue floral patterned-paper eps. Gilt stamped title to front cover. NB. Binding appears later, not original. Scarce yearbook from this School of Nursing in Cleveland..... More
WORLD WAR I PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM.
Toronto ? 1915. 25 leaves of black mounting paper, 19 pages of which have 85 b/w photographs affixed. Two pages at front with captions to photographs, one of which states, "The Start - Toronto 1915". Photos range in size from 3/4" x 3/4" to 3-1/8" x 4-1/2". Album: 5-3/4" x...... More
FAMILY THERMOMETRY; A Manual of Thermometry, for Mothers, Nurses, Hospitalers, Etc., and All Who Have Charge of the Sick and the Young.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, 1873. 1st Edition (Atwater 3137). 72 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Text illustrated with 2 cuts of thermometers, and a few graphs. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5". Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with black stamping. Born in France, Seguin emigrated..... More
A HAND - BOOK Of NURSING For Family and General Use. Published Under the Direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880. A later issue of the 1st edition of this important early American nursing text, initially published in 1879. Cf. Cordasco 70-1507. 266 pp (including Index). 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Publisher's original green cloth binding, with gilt stampd spine lettering & black stamped lettering..... More
PROMISE On PARNASSUS. The First Century of the UCSF School of Nursing.
San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, 2007. 1st edition. SIGNED by the author on the t.p. xiii, 191 pp. Illustrated. 11-1/4" x 8-3/4". Creme cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Pictorial glossy dust jacket. Bright blue bookmark ribbon. More
HOSPITAL SISTERS And Their DUTIES.
London: J. & A. Churchill 11, New Burlington Street, 1886. 1st Edition. [8], 164, [4] pp. Publisher adverts last 4 pages. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Somewhat uncommon book on the subject, with OCLC reporting just 4 cc held..... More
TRADE CARD. U. S. Sanitary Commission, "The Home," for Mothers, Wives, Nurses and Relatives of Solders, Annapolis, Md.
[Annapolis?]: (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1864. Card printed recto only. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The USSC established offices and storehouses, and homes for soldiers and their relatives, throughout Maryland during the war, in Annapolis, Baltimore, Frederick, and Sharpsburg. The main purpose of these USSC stations was..... More
NOTES On HOSPITALS: Being Two Papers Read Before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Liverpool, in October, 1858. With Evidence Given to the Royal Commissioners on the State of the Army in 1857.
London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1859. First Edition [Bishop & Goldie 100 (iii); Garrison - Morrison 1611]. [8], 108, 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue at rear. Charts, including one fold-out, 8 intra-textual figures & 4 fold-out plates at rear. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown..... More
MEMOIR Nurse Edith Cavell, (The Florence Nightingale of Brussels); Brutally Murdered by the Germans on October 12th, 1915, at 2 a.m.
Millgate, Wigan: Palatine Press, [1915]. 1st printing (preumed). Single sheet of crepe paper, printed in 4 paragraphs, surrounding a center photographic b/w image of Cavell ('Daily Mirror Photo'). Double rules to broadside border, with crowns in the corners & midpoints of the double rule. Crossed British flags, printed in red..... More
"EVACUATION 114" As Seen From Within
Boston: Hudson Printing Company, 1919. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. 71, [5 (blank)] pp. Chapters: Jouy, Chateau-Thierry, Toul & Fleury. Frontispiece. 5 internal b/w plates. Laid-in, an albumen photograph of the author, with her signature on the verso. 12mo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8". Grey cloth spine pver mottled grey paper wrapped..... More
The MOTHER At HOME; or, The Principles of Maternal Duty Familarly Illustrated.
Boston / New-York: Crocker and Brewster / Jonathan Leavitt, 1833. 3rd edition (American Imprints 17225). viii, [13] - 164 pp. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8". Original publishers green cloth spine over drab paper boards, with printed paper title label to spine. Abbott, a well-known Congregational clergyman, as well..... More
A CONCISE DESCRIPTION Of The ROYAL HOSPITAL for Seamen at Greenwich.; Extracted from the Historical Account Published by the Chaplains. Sold Only at the Hospital.
[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
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AUTOGRAPH NOTE [ANs], Signed. To Mrs Fulkes. Dated 16 July 1878. [accompanied by ]. Carte - de - Visite [CDV].
[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
CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH Of A NURSE.
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
SIX HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS Of The WATSONVILLE SANATORIUM.
[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
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed [on] U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION Letterhead.; Addressed to Rev. E. McCravath. June 8th, 1865.
(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
The AMERICAN HOSPITAL Of The TWENTIETH CENTURY.; A Treatise on the Development of Medical Institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the Beginning of the Present Century.
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
POCKET BOOK On TRAY And TROLLEY SETTING.; Foreword by McInroy, I. G.
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
The EVER WELCOME SANITARY COMMISSION. 1199.; Photographic War History. 1861. 1865.
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..... More
SCHOOL Of NURSING. WORCESTER CITY HOSPITAL. Class of 1956 A.
[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
ENLIST In A PROUD PROFESSION! Join the U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS. A Lifetime Education - Free! If You Can Qualify.
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
FINDING THEMSELVES.; The Letters of an American Army Chief Nurse in a British Hospital in France.
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
OUR SICK And How to Take Care of Them or Plain Teaching on Sick Nursing at Home.
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
ARCHIVE As A WORLD WAR II VOLUNTEER NURSE ASSIGNED To INDIA.
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