Search Results: Life Sciences from Minotavros Books

Leipzig Und Wien [Leipzig and Vienna]: Franz Deuticke, 1901. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. "Syphilis and Venereal Diseases: A Concise Textbook for use by Students and Practitioners." Fifth significantly increased and improved edition. German. XII, 355 p.p., [7 colour plates], [1], 38 p.p. [sample of "Die Moderne Therapie der Gonorrhoe" by Dr. Finger]. Ink ownership inscription to title page. Ownership stamp to front pastedown. Half bound in black morocco with black spine label with gilt tiling, black cloth boards. Chips to spine ends, with loss. Wear to spine, joints, edges, corners. Chafing and scuffs to cloth boards, damp stain to edge of front board. Veined edges. Green ribbon marker. Text is bright and clean, binding is tight. Partially rebacked. A German medical textbook on venereal diseases from Dr. Ernest Finger, a leading authority on the topic in Vienna at the time of publication.

London: Printed for T. Cox, 1752. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Freind, John. 1675-1728. Written, in Latin, by the Late Learned Dr. John Freind. Translated into English by Thomas Dale, M.D. The Second Edition. [16], 216 p.p., [8 p.p. index, ads]. Engraved title vignette, with decorative head, tail, and endpieces. Bound in red and blue marbled quarter-paper with rebacked brown calf spine and red leather spine label. Light rubbing to tips, outer edges. Some slight scuffs on spine. Light foxing. Some top edges trimmed. Interior clean. A very good copy. [ESTC: N3393].

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. vii, [2], 273 p.p., [1]. Original red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and front board and blind stamped device and panel to front. Bumping to spine ends, soiling to joints, a few small damp stains to boards, small spot of wear to foot of front board. Foxing to edges of text block. Offsetting to endpapers. B&W illustrations + frontis. of a vasectomy. A fascinating tome exploring the ethical, medical, and scientific questions about when life begins and ends, and it deals extensively with issues of abortion and complications during pregnancy.

Toronto: Optagon Publications Ltd, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. 284 (4) p.p. Paperback. Small black markings to spine ends. Interior clean, a fine copy of book. This book explores the differences between what people value and the facts behind them for commonly known controversial topics.

Portland, Maine: Smith & Sale, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. xii, 226 p.p., [2]. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling and blind floral tooling to front board, bumping to spine ends, edges and corners, light rubbing to spine ends, corners, and joints. Roughly cut edges. Floral endpapers. Hinge cracked at flyleaf. This inspiring volume contains sections on mental health and attitude, exercise, sleep, the possibilities of the mind and tapping into the superconscious, psycho-analysis, personality, and mental healing.

Kjobenhavn [Copenhagen]: I Commission Hos C.A. Reitzel, 1883. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. [On The Antiseptic Treatment Of Complicated Fractures And Its Influence On These Procedures And Prognoses]. Scarce. Danish. Thesis defended by Joachim Bondesen 13 September 1883. 204 p.p. Tan paper wraps. Bondesen's name signed to front cover at head. Wraps are age toned and sunned at edges. Chip to heel of spine, light wear to edges. Ex-library stamp of Johns Hopkins [Baltimore, MD] to front cover. Front cover has detached. Rear cover lightly foxed. Laid in papers with proclamations from the Ministry of Chruch and Educational Affairs regarding provisions for the defence of academic dissertations, dated 3rd July 1878.

Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Company. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. [n.d., ca. 1900?] Staple bound pamphlet. Damp staining to covers, rust stains from staples to spine and hinges of pages. 28 p.p., [3]. Twenty-nine B&W plate illustrations. Bumping to corners. Cover has detached from the rest of the pamphlet. Published as a supplement to "The Practical Home Physician" by Henry M. Lyman et. al.

New York: Emerson Books, Inc, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Ninth printing, new edition. xii, 377 p.p. Original green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine and in blind to front board. Text clean except for a few spots of foxing. Bookplate to front pastedown. Bumping to spine ends and board edges. Light rubbing to front joint and rear board. Light foxing to a few pages, but text is largely clean.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 5" x 8.5" Paperback. xi, 260 p.p. Light wear to covers, edges. Front cover scuffed, rubbed. Otherwise in very good condition.