Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1877. 8vo. 12 pp. First separately printed edition. Original printed wrappers, top wrapper serves as title. Wrappers slightly browned at edges and slightly split at foot of spine. Interior very lightly browned. First printing of Holmes’ address on microscopy. C&T, pp. 158, 433; OCLC locates no copies..... 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

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: 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: 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, 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: [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: 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, 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 & 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

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