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
![ARCHIVE Of 29 WORLD WAR II V-MAIL LETTERS [plus] One Red Cross Letter. Iva Hugh Pickens, 1911 - 2001.](/pictures/thumb/46075.jpg?v=1538772756)
England: 1943 - 1944. 1 letter per envelope [in most cases], most one page in length, a few typed, most handwritten, 33 total. 20 - 30 lines per letter, 8000+ words. Envelopes: 3-3/4" x 4-3/4. Unfolded V-Mail sheets: 5-1/8" x 4-1/4". White, and buff, paper envelopes, all but one postmarked... 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=1524419021)
[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
Brooklyn, NY: Scherer Photo Studios, (n. d.). C. 1890s. One b/w photo mounted on thick card, imprimt to verso. 3-3/8" x 1-7/8" photo; 5-1/4" x 3-3/8" mount. More
![NURSE'S LEATHER CHATELAINE WITH 8 TOOLS [together with] TWO CABINET CARDS. Chatelaine - Photographs.](/pictures/thumb/45018.jpg?v=1521239058)
(n. p.): The London Photographic Company; J. A. Wheeler. (n. d.). C. 1880s. One chatelaine with 8 tools, and two cabinet cards. B/w photographs. Cabinet cards: 6-1/2" x 4-1/4"; Chatelaine: approx. 6-1/2" x 4-3/4" Leather chatelaine pouch with steel snap enclosure, V-shaped leather straps with a silver belt clip. Cabinet... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. 1st edition. ix, [3], 236 pp. Illustrated with drawings. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with white stamped lettering. Blue map eps. Blue topstain. Green & blue dust jacket. More
London: Darling & Son, Limited, 1915. 1st printing. 24 pp. 9-5/8" x 6-1/8". Printed blue paper covers, stapled. Cavell an American nurse shot by the Germans, after an accusation of her assisting prisoners to escape. More
