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Illinois: Augustana Book Concern, 1926. FIRST EDITION. Full-page portrait of Lincoln. Half-morocco and boards; interior very clean and uncut. Signed by Oakleaf on the limitation page.
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A Reprint of the List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln. Compiled by Daniel Fish
by OAKLEAF, Joseph Benjamin
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Uber die Wirkung des Windes auf schwach gewolbte Flachen. In: Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vol. 104, Part II
by OBERMAYER, A. von
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Vienna: Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Text illustrations. Original printed wrappers (front wrapper reinforced) bound in modern cloth. Embossed stamp of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on the front wrapper. First edition of the author's rare offprint of a talk read before the Akademie der Wissenschaften, and published in the Zeitschrift für Luftschiffahrt the following year, 1896. This paper presents Obermayer's vital research on the principles of wind movement over wing surfaces. It contributed to the experimentation which was taking place at the time in an effort to design the first effective fixed-wing aircraft, and mentions the work of Lileanthal.
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The third policeman
by O'BRIEN, Flann
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New York: Walker and Company, 1967. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket price clipped but wonderfully preserved; a gorgeous and clean copy.
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Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis
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Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1792. Contemporary tree calf, joints worn and cracked; waterstain to top corner of first quire. From the library of Nicholas I. Quackenbos with his small book label on the paste-down and his signature dated 1802 on title. Eighth Edinburgh edition. The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, compiled by the Royal College of Physicians, basically consists of a catalogue of drugs and preparations. It acted to standardize medical prescriptions and the substances used in treatment. The work first appeared in 1699; this is the eighth edition to have been printed in Edinburgh. The recipes incorporate everything from herbal remedies used by the ancients to the animal substances so popular at the time, and other ingredients in keeping with the latest researches in science and chemistry. Among the materials used are dired goats' blood, dried bees, crabs' claws and skins of toads.
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EARLY (FIRST?) USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS EVIDENCE AT AN EQUITY TRIAL: In the House of Lords : on appeal from Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England : between Sir John William Ramsden, baronet ... [et al.] appellants, and Lee Dyson, John Buckley, and James Bates, respondents Author: Ramsden, John ... [et. al.].
by HOUSE OF LORDS
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Two volumes. 4to. With 9 folding albumen prints, each with an original manuscript caption explaining the image and noting the exhibit from the various affidavits, signed by Wm. Dransfield (a commissioner who administered oaths in trial court and who is mentioned in print) and some with the blind-stamp of S. Musgrave, photo-printer. Contemporary cloth, title and date in gilt on spines; interiors and photographs in excellent condition.First edition. The original case was brought by tenants of Sir John Ramsden, owner of a large estate near Huddersfield. Ramsden had made arrangements with many of his tenants, often without a signed lease, which included terms of tenancies and agreements for the improvement of the properties. After Ramsden died, his heirs sought to nullify many of these arrangements and enter into specific lease terms with all tenants; those that refused were given notices to quit. Two of the tenants sued in equity court claiming proprietary estoppel, that the heirs should be estopped… Read More
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[VARNUM, Joseph; CUTTS, Richard; SEAVER, Ebenezer; BARKER, Joseph; GREEN, Isaiah; COOK, Orchard; DEANE, Josiah; ILSLEY, Daniel; BACON, Ezekiel]. The reply of the majority of the representatives from the state of Massachusetts, in Congress, to the resolutions and instructions of the legislature of that state on the subject of the embargo laws
by [STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS]
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City of Washington: A. & G. Way, 1808. FIRST EDITION. Stapled into original wrappers, tattered and detached; some light soiling. Contemporary underlining to text. Embossed stamp of Aurora College, Illinois to title. First edition of this pamphlet, written to discuss the question of the repeal of certain embargo laws.
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Georgia O'Keefe: The Artist's Landscape
by O'KEEFFE, Georgia; WEBB, Todd
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Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1984. FIRST EDITION. With 40 full-page photographic plates by Todd Webb. Publisher's cloth, small amount of soiling on covers, and preserved in the original cloth slipcase with a photographic illustration on the cover. An excellent copy.
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All but." A chronicle of Laxenford life
by OLIVER, Pen [pseud. Sir Henry Thompson]
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. including half-title and 43 pages publisher's advertisements. With frontispiece and 20 plates. Original publisher's cloth, top edges uncut. Second edition. Thompson (1820-1904) was an English surgeon and professor at the Royal College of Physicians, specializing in surgery of the genito-urinary tract and of the bladder. The plates were all executed by the author, the last being a self-portrait. BMC, XVIII, 347; Osler, 5515.
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Tell me a riddle
by OLSEN, Tillie
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. FIRST EDITION. Grey cloth with white lettering on spine, dustjacket price clipped and in pristine condition, top edges red; overall a crisp and beautiful copy.
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Silences
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New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket wonderfully preserved; a bright and lovely copy.
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A Frenchman in America
by O'RELL, Max
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New York: Cassel, 1891. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of the author and over 130 text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, illustrated on front cover and spine in black and gilt, minor wear to edges and corners; some minor spotting, ownership inscription and some pencil annotations on the flyleaf, otherwise a good copy. First American edition, published simultaneously in Bristol, of this work that provides entertaining and humorous anecdotes and comparisons between French and Anglo-American culture. French author and journalist Max O'Rell was the pseudonym of Léon Paul Blouet (1847-1903), who recorded his observations on his travels throughout America while on an extensive book tour in the late nineteenth century. "To American and British audiences, O'Rell served as a reference for everything French and he made great efforts to affect the public discussion of political, social and cultural matters. He is of particular interest to cultural historians studying the presentation of gender…
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Coup d'oeil sur quelques appareils prothetiques. Extrait du bulletin General de therapeutique
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Paris: Bureau du Bulletin General de Therapeutique, 1862. With numerous text illustrations of prosthetic devices. Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. First printing, apparently for purposes of handing out at a conference of orthopedic surgeons. This work contains fourteen short articles by famous physicians, including presentations of new devices used for massage, artificial limbs, feet (in an article by Duchenne de Boulogne), legs, and other amputated body parts. With absolutely wonderful illustrations, this work is a medically-substantive journal which appears similar to a company's merchandise catalogue.
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Mankind may never make it!
by OSBORN, Robert
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Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Illustrations in black and white. Softcover. Some discoloration on cover. Interior in excellent condition.
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Historical sketch of Salem, 1626-1879
by OSGOOD, Chas. S. and BATCHELDER, H.M.
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Salem: Essex Institute, 1879. FIRST EDITION. Bound into paper with the original printed front wrapper attached; title page brittle with edges torn, otherwise uncut. Ex-library copy. First edition of this interesting history of Salem.
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Osler's textbook revisited
by [OSLER]. HARVEY, A. Mcgehee
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New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967. FIRST EDITION. First edition. Sixteen prominent academic physicians comment on various sections of the 7th edition of Osler's textbook. The contributors include Robert Austrian, William Bean, William Castle, William Dock, Howard Means, Maurice Strauss, George Thorn, Thomas Turner, Theodore Woodward, and James Wyngaarden, among others.
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Sir William Osler memorial number. Appreciations and reminiscences. Bulletin No. IX of the International Association of Medical Museums and Journal of Technical Methods
by [OSLER, Sir William] ABBOTT, Maude
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Montreal: Privately issued, 1927. FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION. With frontispiece portrait of Osler and numerous full-page illustrations (many photographic). Publisher's blue cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine; interior excellent, as new.
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Incunabula medica. A study of the earliset printed medical books, 1467-1480
by OSLER, Sir William
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Oxford: For the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1923. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Title in red and black, frontispiece portrait and 16 plates. Original cloth-backed boards; covers very lightly soiled, still an excellent copy. First edition in book form, originally issued as an address read before the Bibliographical Society in 1914 and printed two years later in the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. It is here first edited with a preface by A.W. Pollard, and with bibliographical descriptions by V. Scholderer. The work describes 214 of the earliest printed medical books.
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Group of 8 Osler items
by [OSLER, Sir William]
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(1). Annotated answers to the 1902 examination of Osler's Principles. . . . Annals of Internal Medicine, September 1973, pp. 460-72; (2). JAMA. William Osler commemorative issue. Vol. 210, No. 12, December 22, 1969. pp. 2213-69. Wrappers; (3). Sir William Osler Memorial Number, Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 84, no. 1. Chicago: American Medical Association, July 1949. 198 pp. Original printed wrappers; (4). KEYS. Sir William Osler and the medical library. Offprint. January and April. pp. 24-148. Wrappers; (5). BELT. The practice of medicine by William Osler, the book of greatest influence in my life. Los Angeles, 1937. 7 pp. Wrappers, soiled; (6). GOODWIN. William Osler and Howard A. Kelly, Physicians, medical historians. . . . Oxford: Clarendon Press, December, pp. 611-52; (7). MANN. An evening among the books. Program for the History of Medicine. December 29, 1969. [1], 19 leaves. Pictorial wrappers; (8). TRENT. Thumbnail sketches of eminent physicians: Sir William Osler. Durham, N.C.:…
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Selected writings of Sir William Osler 12 July 1848 to 29 December 1919
by OSLER, William
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New York; Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberledge, Oxford University Press, 1951. With 4 photographic plates. Blue wrappers, dustjacket.
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Counsels and ideals, from the writings of William Osler
by OSLER, William
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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. second edition. With one portrait and 1 photographic plate. Red cloth, frontispiece waterstained, a few internal leaves roughly opened. Second edition.
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