Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. 12mo. 39 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original yellow printed boards, cover soiled; a few occasional spots to interior, otherwise a clean uncut copy housed in a cloth folding case. Inscription to verso of title. First edition, first printing, state A, without the advertisement between front..... More
New York: Schuman’s, 1940. 8vo. 44, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With errata slip and original admission card to a Dartmouth medical lecture dated 1850 tipped in. Original boards and slip-case, with portrait pasted on top cover. First edition, No. 45 of 100 copies printed, containing the first printing of this..... More
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894. Two volumes. 8vo. xvi, 219, [1]; vi, 221-474 pp. Half-title and title in red and black, frontispiece in each volume. With 13 plates. Full vellum, decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. A bright, clean and uncut copy with the bookplates of Carroll Atwood Wilson and Edwin..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Two volumes. 12mo. xvi, 219; vi, 221-474 pp. Frontispiece in each volume. With 13 plates and text illustrations throughout. Original red cloth, decorated in gilt. Holiday edition, with new plates from re-set type, with illustrations by Howard Pyle. BAL, 9215; C&T..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. 8vo. [ii], ix, [i], 321 pp. With engraved frontispiece. Original green illustrated publisher’s cloth. Contemporary ownership inscription on fly-leaf; an excellent copy. Fourth edition. More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1859. 8vo. viii, 373 pp., including half-title. SECOND EDITION. Title in red and black. Pebbled cloth over beveled boards, decorated in blind. Inscriptions to fly-leaf, “Miss Sally Gardner, from her friend and cousin OW Holmes,” and “F.L. Higginson-1866.”. PRESENTATION COPY. Second edition. Presentation copy to..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. 12mo. viii, 373 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half title, woodcut title, second title in red and black, and 8 woodcut plates. Original blue pebbled publisher’s cloth, the rare binding with 5 rings in gilt on the spine, decorated in blind; endpapers printed with publisher’s advertisements..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. 8vo. viii, 373 pp. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER ISSUE. With half-title, woodcut title, second title in red and black, and 8 woodcut plates. Original tan pebbled cloth, decorated in blind, with title, author’s name, and 4 rings in gilt to spine. End-papers printed with..... More
Boston: Philips, Sampson and Company, 1857-58. Two volumes. Large 8vo. iv, 892; iv, 900 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco and pebbled boards, spine decorated in blind, slightly rubbed at corners and edges of spine. Both volumes inscribed on front paste-down by William Prince, Vol. 2 with his large engraved bookplate. First..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. 8vo. [4], 80 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original blindstamped cloth. A nice copy, edges slightly rubbed. First edition of this delightful lecture to the medical class at Harvard University by Holmes (1809-94), professor of anatomy and physiology. More
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1895]. 8vo. xxii, [iv], 352 pp. FIRST PRINTING. Wonderful engraved frontispiece, title with engraved vignette. Original pebbled cloth, very light rubbing to head and foot of spine, hinges cracked. Bookplate of Henry Goodwin Spencer. First printing. There are seventeen poems printed in..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 8vo. ix, [i], 406, [2] pp., plus 16 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original brown pebbled cloth, decorated in blind. Bookplate of Alfred Sutro. An exquisite copy with a note from Sutro laid in. First edition, first issue. The first collection of Holmes’..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo. 48 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, soiled. A fantastic copy from the library of Carroll Atwood Wilson, with his bookplate. Preserved in a slip-case. WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTION IN HOLMES’ HAND. Second edition, a great deal more scarce than the first, with seven additional..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. 8vo. viii, 848 pp. FIRST PRINTING. With 8 plates. Half-calf and speckled boards, worn at corners and edges of spine; interior very good. First printing. The entire volume is offered here. Though the address was delivered on December 3, 1878, it was not printed..... More
Boston: [Harvard Medical School], 1858. 500 x 420 mm. Engraved diploma on vellum. Signed by Hayward's committee, which included Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) as professor of Anatomy & Physiology; Edward H[ammond] Clarke (1820-77) as Professor of Natural Medicine; John Bacon (fl. 1858) as Professor of Chemistry and John Ware (1796-1864)..... More
Boston: The Welch Bibliophilic Society, 1937. 18mo. 39 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Title in red and black. Original cream-coloured paper boards; an uncut copy with a letter on Welch Bibliophilic Society letterhead tipped onto front paste-down. First edition, first printing of Holmes’ medical school dissertation, taken from the original..... More
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848. 8vo. 38 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, rebacked. An exquisite copy inscribed by Holmes to J.A. Lowell. Preserved in a cloth slip-case. First edition. Without the advertisements on back wrapper, as is often the case in presentation copies. C&T, p. 40; OCLC..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. Two volumes. 8vo. 288; 312 pp., plus 16 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Original brown cloth, decorated in blind, title in gilt to spines, chipped at head and foot of spine, some spotting on covers. First edition, probable fourth printing. More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 8vo. xii, 420 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original burgundy cloth, ruled in blind, title, author and publisher’s device in gilt to spine, covers a bit worn, spine sunned. With the morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro as well as a small bookseller’s label to front paste-down..... More
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842. 12mo. v, [iii], 72 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original calf-backed tan boards, title printed on spine, stained, joints cracked; very light scattered foxing. Preserved in a half-morocco slip-case. More
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842. 12mo. v, [iii], 72 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original calf-backed tan boards, title printed on spine, stained, joints cracked; very light scattered foxing. Preserved in a half-morocco slip-case. More
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped, top wrapper detached. Ink stamp of the Rhode Island Historical Society to top wrapper and title. Presentation inscription from Usher Parsons on wrapper. First edition, second or third state of wrapper, with the..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 4to. vii, [i], 278 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Original beveled brown cloth, title and author’s name in gilt to top cover and spine, slightly worn at edges, corners and extremities of spine. Presentation inscription from Motley’s son, Edwin, and morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro. First..... More
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1895. 12mo. [ii], 55, [1] pp. With frontispiece, 22 plates and text illustrations throughout. Original decorated two-tone cloth, title and author in gilt to top cover and spine; aside from a few small spots to covers, a fine copy. Holiday edition. Contains the first printing..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 8vo. 101 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original maroon cloth, rebacked with the original back-strip laid down; back fly-leaf and paste-down worn. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. From the library of Charles Ricksher, with his bookplate. More
