Hartford: H. and F.J. Huntington, 1831. A scarce early - perhaps the earliest - instructional book for women on why calisthentics are essential both for maintaining good health and the improvement of their minds. The book is written as a series of letters from a mother, identified as "M" who begins with letters about the importance of of physical education for children. She then proceeds to offer instructions and exercises for women to do themselves and to train their daughters. There are sixty-two charming illustrations that show women how they should perform their calisthentics. Ex-library with library stamp for a New Hampshire doctor's office debossed on title page. Below the stamp "Bring it back"" is written in blue pencil. Bound in brown cloth with no titling to cover or spine. Boards are worn with sun fading to cloth along edges. The front joint is slightly cracked. A few minor stained spots on front and rear covers. Rounded corners. Cracked hinges. Front and rear endpapers are toned, foxed. Offsetting to title page and free front endpaper as well as to the rear free endpapers. Text pages are lightly aged. Small closed tears to fore-edge margins of pages 49-54 not affecting text.Occasional pencil underlining. A nice copy in quite good condition of this delightful manual. Measures 4.25 x 6.75 inches. 87 pages. MED/050823. More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1890. Hardcover. A detailed account of the construction of Johns Hopkins Hospital illustrated with 56 plates. The plates include photographic illustrations of interiors and exteriors (including pipes and boiler rooms), floor plans of each building, and sectional views. The text reprints the addresses given at the opening of the hospital and includes a discussion of the grounds, building arrangement, and plan preparation, as well as a statement about each building and its systems: heating, water, sewage, lighting, telephones, clocks, administration building, kitchen building, nurses' home, amphitheater, bath house, isolating ward, octagon ward, dispensary, etc. Bound in three quarter black leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. While a beautiful production, this book is unfortunately dampstained along the edge of the text-block, which affects about a quarter of each page. Some pages have visible dampstaining and some are just rippled. Luckily, the margins are quite wide and the staining remains in the margins of most pages. The edges of the boards are dampstained as well and the marbled paper is chipped along the edges. The leather covering the spine is heavily worn and chipped. The front hinge is cracked and the front cover is nearly detached. The covers are rubbed and worn. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. A scarce title, this is still a good reading / reference copy despite the noted damage. Size: Folio. 116 pages of text plus 56 plates. MED/111419. Good. More

London and New York: Routledge, [2011]. Hardcover. First Edition. A reproduction of Global Crime Volume 10 / Issue 4. Includes nine essays on the historic theories of violence from Machiavelli, modern armed conflict and the killing of civilians, violence in a global perspective, economic sanctions in Iraq, a public health perspective of violence, and more. Fine in blue paper covered boards with white title to spine and front cover. Light rubbing to covers, else fine. Pristine interior. Issued without dust jacket. 144 pages plus advertisement. PSYCH/080912. Fine. More

Toronto: Cheshire Cat Press, 2023. Hardcover. Number 19 of 42 copies. Signed by Tannenbaum, Richards, Malcolm, and Walker. Quarto. A parody of Lewis Carroll's "Hunting of the Snark", written during the COVID-19 quarantine, that involves an expedition to cure infectious diseases by procuring a tissue sample from the elusive Snark, which is said to have immunity to all germs. Unfortunately, all but one of the crew members takes ill and dies from one of the diseases they set out to cure. Includes the Snark Map and a table of diseased crew members. The author of the introduction, which discusses infectious diseases during Carroll's lifetime is Catherine Anne Richards (1963). She is a retired English paediatric surgeon with a passion for Carrollinia. The author of this parody, Alison Crane Tannenbaum (1946), is a neurobiologist that spent most of her career in biomedical research at the National Institute of Health. Bound in red cloth boards with leatherette title label to front cover and gilt title to spine. Printed in New Caledonia type on Velin BFK Rives paper by George Walker and Andy Malcolm. With wood engravings by Walker, made from end grain end grain maple wood. The engravings of each crew member are underprinted with engravings based on photographs of viruses, which were provided by the author. Housed in slipcase covered in same cloth as book with gilt titling to cover and spine. In fine condition. 54 pages. PRI/030923. Fine. More

Basel: Benno Schwabe & Co., 1961. Paperback. Heinrich Bircher was a surgeon, demographer, and military doctor. Very good in original tan paper wrappers with black title to front cover. In German. Includes frontispiece, diagrams, and illustrations. Stamp on front free endpage from previous book store. 88 pages. In German. GER/2153. Very Good. More

Venetius: Apud Baltassarem Constantinum, 1553. Hardcover. An early medical work in Latin on the causes and symptoms of various illnesses and ailments. The author and the editor were both medical doctors. Bound in early brown leather. It is partially rebacked on a lighter brown leather spine with a fragment of the original spine; the original cover is also attached to the later boards. Leather is chipped, bumped and has a few small holes. The bottom of the title page was cut away after the date and is attached to a blank page. It is discolored and has a light ownership signature. Has printer's device. First signature is loose but still attached to text block. The final few pages also have discolorations not affecting the text. The index precedes the text. Pages are generally clean and bright with occasional spotting, and toning to the margins. Occasional margin notes and underlining. A nice copy overall. Measures 4 x 6.5 inches. 207, [1] pages. MEDIC/022123. Very Good -. More

London: Johannis Clarke, 1742. Hardcover. IN LATIN. Frank Nicholls (1699 - 1778) lectured at Oxford on rarely taught minute anatomy including the structure of blood vessles. This is a later edition in a modern binding. The first was issued in 1738. It includes a summary of anatomy, physiology, morbid anatomy, pharmacology, and midwifery. Bound in brown cloth backed green paper covered boards and gilt title to spine. Minor scuffing to boards. Large open tear to title page along with a few small holes. Illustrated with six plates out of seven. Plate 3 is missing. The first three pages and the last page of this book are soiled, though the text remains bright and legible. There are two dark colored stains on the last page which have bled through to several previous pages. The stains are fairly dark, but the text remains legible on all pages. The remainder of the interior is foxed rather consistently, but the foxing is very light in color. Tight binding. MED/051005. Very Good. More

Basel: S. Karger, 1952. Hardcover. Very good very thick 8vo., blue cloth boards w/faded spine, gilt titling. Interior bright and clean w/no foxing. Binding nice and tight except for crack between title page and subsequent page. Polyglot text in English, French, and German. Many diagrams, charts, graphs, etc. 1143 pp. Medicine. MED/5023. Very Good. More

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, (1971). Softcover. Very good in blue and white illustrated paper wrappers with white title to front and spine panels. Minor yellowing, rubbing, and creasing to wrappers and laminate on wrappers is peeling off. Light highlighting on several pages. Light yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Index, 115 pages. MED/092117. Very Good. More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1988. Hardcover. A brief history of Hopkins University with a spotlight on several important doctors and contributors. Gift bookplate to front pastedown. Thin 4to. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Clean and bright. In white dust jacket with black title to spine and front panels. Housed in a blue cloth covered slipcase. Minor wear and rubbing to edges and panels of slipcase. 36 pages. BALT/042121. Fine / Fine. More

München: Druck und Verlag Carl Kuhn, 1910. Paperback. Facsimile reprint of the first known edition of this book on obstetrics from 1500. Bound in brown paper wrappers with black title to edge of spine. Covers and spine are browned and chipped. Browning to end papers. Several signatures are loose. Approximately 50 pages. GER/022099. Very Good. More

Paris: Vigot Freres, 1909. Paperback. RARE. Very good in a green paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. Minor creasing and chipping to spine. cover. Text is clean and tight. Slight yellowing to page edges. Includes fold out table. French. FRE/7292. Very Good. More

Barcelona: Printed at The Folio Club for Sandra March, 2014. Hardcover. Number 83 of 100 copies signed and numbered by Sandra March. Text in Spanish, Catalan, and English. March is a talented young book and installation artist. With this work she draws a metaphorical, graphic, and auditory journey captured by words, illustrations, and sound. Thus the contents comprise the book, two posters, and a CD. She writes that this project has a scientific basis with a therapeutic and artistic impulse, starting on a subconscious level after losing both her sister and her father from heart diseases. The journey goes from a symbolic loss of the heart until its restoration, through a tour of the beautiful and varied morphology of the cardiac systems of thirty-one different animals and the sounds of their heartbeats. The heartbeat sounds are from a jellyfish, starfish, black widow spider, giant tortoise, Nile crocodile, frog, parakeet, and human being among many others There were a number of contributors to this project, including the biologist Francesc Uribe Porta, sound engineer Vicente Rosati, and illustrator Raquel Bullon. Bound in a white cardboard CD case, with posters attached to the back cover by a pink elastic band and CD held on the middle fold of the case. In fine condition. 58 pages. PRI/042715. Fine. More