Search Results: Titles starting with T from Bull's Head Rare Books

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. First edition. 8vo. Pub. black clothl; spin faded, ex-library with label removed from spine, pocket removed from rear pastedown, stamp to front paste-down and some pencil markings Morgan won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933

London: Harrison & Sons, 1907. First book edition. 8vo. 58 pp. Publisher's blue cloth. Printed author's compliments leaf laid-in; slight shelfwear to foot of spine Lister's talk was delivered October 2, 1900, and first published in The British Medical Journal that year.

Vintage albumen stereograph prints on printed card mounts (3-1/2 x 7 inches) Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A. New York: Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers, 1895. Sold by Underwood & Underwood. Fine"Wa's Done All Dis, 's Mornin'" (9506) and Plowing the Field for Cotton (6512). [Meadville, PA]: Keystone View Company,1905. With educational text on back of mount. Some fading and wear to images, edges worn or creased.With three additional later halftone printed cards depicting plantation and stereotyped Black scenes

London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First edition. George & Robert Cruikshank. 8vo. 6 etched plates (4 by George and 2 by Robert Cruikshank). viii, 184 pp. Three-quarters crushed dark-green morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., by Stikeman & Co. slight rubbing to joints and wear to head of spine. The Poor copy of the first edition in a Stikeman binding.PROVENANCE: Henry W. Poor (red leather book-label, his sale, part I, Nov. 1908, no. 340); F.G. Loeb (book-plate)REFERENCE: Cohn 151

London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition in book form. George Cruikshank. 8vo. Forty etchings in steel and 58 woodcuts by George Cruikshank. xvi, 439, [1] pp. Full green crushed morocco gilt, a.e.g., by Riviere & Son; a few small scuffs to spine and rear cover, a few plates foxed First edition in book form, following the monthly serialization, of Ainsworth's historical romance about the imprisonment, trial and execution of Lady Jane Grey. With the plates at pp. 16, 28 and 45 in second state.REFERENCE: Cohn 14

Paris: J. Ant. Brosson, 1809. Second edition. 8vo. 2 engraved plates, 2 folding tables. [4], xxxii, 496 pp., half-title. Near contemporary half calf and marbled boards; rubbed, pp. 71-72 torn at bottom with loss of several words Inscribed on the half-title to dermatology pioneer Jean Louis Marc Alibert, "de la part de l'Auteur" (the inscription is slightly shaved). "In this entirely recast and greatly enlarged second edition, Pinel adds much new material and discusses the results of new and more humane methods of treatment for the insane" (Heirs of Hippocrates)."Pinel founded the French School of Psychiatry. He was among the first to treat the insane humanely; he dispensed with chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians. Garrison considered the above book one of the foremost medical classics, giving as it did a great impetus to humanitarian treatment of the insane.…The second French edition, Paris, Brosson, 1809 was very substantially enlarged by Pinel"… Read More

Bruxelles [Brussels]: J.-B. Tircher, 1838. First edition, Brussels issue. 8vo. [4], 808 pp. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled paper boards; spine chipped and worn, joints cracked The Haskell Norman copy of the first edition of Ricord's important work on venereal disease, published simultaneously in Paris and Brussels."Includes the description of 'Ricord’s chancre,' the initial lesion in syphilis. Ricord re-demonstrated the specific character of syphilis and divided it into the three stages, primary, secondary, and tertiary. Repeating Hunter’s experiment, Ricord proved that syphilis and gonorrhoea were separate diseases. After Hunter, he was the greatest authority on venereal disease" (Garrison-Morton)PROVENANCE: inscription of Dr. Portry, Malmedy, 1838, on ffep and his notes in German on the rear endpapers; Haskell F. Norman (book-plate)REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2381 & 5202; Heirs of Hippocrates 1621; Norman 1831; Waller 7974

Nancy: J.B. Hiacinthe Leclerc; Paris: J. Merlin, 1768. First edition. 8vo. [10], xvi, 500, [10] pp., half-title. Contemporary half speckled calf and boards, citron morocco spine label; tips bumbed, offsetting to half-title, an attractive copy First edition of this history of and argument for inoculation by Gandoger de Foigny (1732-1770), professor of anatomy and surgery at the Collège des Médecines in Nancy.PROVENANCE: 19th-century book-ticket (Bessinge, Science medicales); Librairie Alain Brieux (book-label)

Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817. First American edition. 8vo. 8 engraved plates by Kneass, Young & Co. viii, xii, viii, 514 pp. (Advertisement and Dedication leaves bound in reverse order). Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; binding scuffed, toned and foxed First American edition, first published London, 1794. “Hunter’s last work, published the year after his death, contained his studies of inflammation and of the management of gunshot wounds, both of which subjects had been imperfectly understood before his time. He recognized the process of inflammation as one of the most widespread phenomena in pathology” (Norman).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2283 (first ed.); Norman 1122 (first ed.)

Albany: J.Buel, [1820]. First edition. 8vo. Pub boards, ex-library

London: J. Taylor, Architectural Library, 1811. First edition. Tall 8vo. Engraved frontispiece (plate 10) and 9 engraved plates at rear. [6], xix (i.e., xxiv), [1], 135, [1], [12, publisher's catalogue] pp. Uncut in publisher's grey-blue boards, printed spine label (with price "15s. Boards"); a beautifully preserved copy with just occasional marginal foxing. First edition of this early treatise on the origins of the Gothic style. Milner argues that Gothic, or pointed, architecture originated in England from the intersection of circular arches.PROVENANCE: Thomas Fitzherbert (armorial book-plate dated 1749)REFERENCE: BAL, Early Printed Books, no. 2148

New York: William Wood & Company, 1898. First American edition. 8vo. Color frontispiece and one additional color plate, 88 b/w illustrations to text. xvi, [1], 605, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth; binding cocked, foxing. With publisher's compliments slip tipped-in before the title-page First American edition of this "great work" (PMM) and a classic of modern medical literature by the father of tropical medicine and founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine, Patrick Manson (1844-1922). The work summarizes his groundbreaking discovery of mosquito-born infections and presents a practical introduction to tropical diseases. "A work founded on his large experience and numerous original researches in China" (ODNB). This American edition was published the same year as the first London edition — both editions are uncommon in the trade. Garrison-Morton notes a 16th edition of the work appearing as late as 1966.REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2266; PMM 388

LEISHMAN, William. An Essay, Historical and Critical, on the Mechanism of Parturition. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with Elizabeth’s signature, “E. Blackwell,” on the front free endpaper. viii, 129, [erratum] pp. London, John Churchill & Sons, 1864. [And:] COURTY, Amédée-Hippolyte-Pierre. Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes ... First edition Numerous illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green blindstamped cloth, boards slightly warped, headcap chipped, extremities slightly rubbed, with Emily Blackwell’s signature on the half-title. xxiv, 1088, 24 (ads) pp. Paris, P. Asselin, successeur de Béchet Jeune et Labé, 1866. Once can scarcely imagine a more evocative and satisfying provenance of these two books. One was owned by Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) the other by her sister, Emily (1826-1910). Furthermore, these two works related directly to their medical careers and were doubtless useful in their work at the New York Dispensary for Poor Women… Read More

London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, second state of C2 (p. 19, l. 1 reads “Pomare”). 8vo. Map at p. [xvii]. xvi, [2], 285, [1] pp., + 16 pp. catalogue dated March 1846 (BAL "B" variant, no priority), with half-title. Publisher's red cloth (BAL variant B), covers stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt. An exceptional copy, with just a trace of wear to front board fore-edge and rear joint, small chip from tail end of spine A fine first edition in publisher's cloth of Melville's first book, preceding the American edition of the same year, which appeared a month later under its now more familiar title, TYPEE. This London edition was set from Melville's manuscript, whereas the New York Wiley & Putnam edition was set from proof sheets of the Murray edition. "Murray's first printing consisted of 4,048 copies (2,500 of them in wrappers), priced at five shillings in cloth and half a crown in wrappers; the book became a profitable one for Murray, with further printings required, but Melville's earnings… Read More