Search Results: Titles starting with O from Gordon Hughes

Newton-Stewart: The Galloway Gazette for the Town Council. No date, about 1939.. Soft cover. Very Good. Map, photos, adverts, 79 pages Oblong format, 16 x 12 cm. Pictorial card covers, only slightly marked. A good clean copy.

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, over two issues, April and May, 1849.. Soft cover. Very Good. iv,205-268,4,iv, and iv,iii,269-328,4,iv. The article is about 23 pages long all together. Light brown wraps, only slightly marked. Adverts for medical publications, apparatus and druggists with one sample pictorial plate. In January 1847 J Y Simpson began pioneering the use of ether as an anaesthetic in his midwifery practice, but by November of that year he was relying more on chloroform, which produced safer and more reliable results. In the United States Dr Charles Meigs was a strong opponent of the use of anaesthesia in midwifery. In 1848 he raised his objections and concerns about its use in response to a paper promoting and advocating chloroform in childbirth, by Simpson. Both these papers had previously been published in the Medical Examiner. Now, in this article, Simpson thoroughly responds to Meigs' objections. Each of Meigs' five points are carefully refuted. As such this… Read More

Dixon (California): Dixon, California: Pacific Ship and Shore, 1982.. Soft cover. Very Good. Photos, maps, 68pp, 21 x 14 cm. The story of the Japanese midget submarine attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, and of the only Japanese survivor; Kazuo Sakamaki: at the time, in p.o.w. camp and in after life, when he met up with the author, who had been stationed at Pearl Harbour at the time of the attack.

Hobart: Baltic Research Foundation, 2017.. Soft cover. Very Good. Two maps, 168 pages. 21 x 15cm. Very good copy. 1st English translation. In 1941 1505 Lithuanians were deported to Arkhangelsk in the Russian Arctic. Stasys Jameikis was one of only 11 survivors.

Heinemann, 1919.. n . Hardcover. Good. Maps and diagrams, including 3 folding, 2 with small marginal fold tears, not affecting the printed surface. viii,552,pp Original khaki green cloth, lettered in gilt on backstrip and in black on top board The binding very good, with minimal signs of wear The cheap postwar economy paper used is a little toned and browned. Overall a good sound copy. War despatches from The Western Front, November 1917 to The Armistice of November 1918

Wellington, NSW: North Western Rivers Tourist Association, 1975.. Soft cover. Very Good. Many photos, loosely inserted folding map, 176 pages, 23.5 x 17 cm. A detailed and comprehensive old fashioned guide, when inclusion didn't depend on taking advertising.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1927.. Hardcover. Good. 295 pages, red cloth, titled in gilt on spine, only slightly rubbed. With the bookseller's label of W. Newman, Calcutta. The Indian provenance has resulted in some slight spotting of the first few and last few pages, as well as the fore-edge. The first of the 2 blank front endpapers has been removed. Overall a good sound copy. A very comprehensive and wide-ranging look at European life in India from the non-official point of view. Includes chapters on Ceylon and Burma.

South Pacific Commission Literature Bureau, about 1960., 1960. Soft cover. Very Good. South Pacific Commission Literature Bureau, about 1960, 1960 Maps and drawings by Nina Murphy 32 pages, softcover, vey clean ex-institutional library 21 x 15 cm