London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. 8vo. 317 pp. FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION. Frontispiece illustration of Gogarty. Original gray cloth in dust-jacket, small tear to top front edge, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition, third impression. Gogarty was called by Yeats “one of the great lyric poets of the age.” A fine..... More
London: Constable & Company, 1910. 8vo. vi, [ii], 492 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard and 8 plates. Original green publisher’s cloth, decorated in blind and gilt at spine; an excellent uncut copy. First edition of Moore’s biography of Goldsmith. It includes an extensive index as..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans; John Murray, 1854. 8vo. xii, 468; [vi], 487, [1]; [iv], 447, [1]; [iv], 450; xlv, [iii], 454; xii, 548 pp., including index for each set. FIRST EDITION OF WORKS; SECOND EDITION OF LIFE. First four volumes with half-title and second engraved title; Volume IV with engraved..... More
Harrisburgh: John Wyeth, 1811. 8vo. [ii], 378, [2] pp., including errata. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary sheepskin with a brown morocco spine label; binding scuffed, spine chipped at head and tail, hinges tender but sound, age toned, still a very good copy with the previous owner's signature on front free end-paper and..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. 8vo. 287 pp. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's beige cloth, in the original dust jacket; a fine copy, though the dust jacket is chipped with a two-inch closed tear on rear panel. First edition of this outstanding biography of an early Texas cattleman. Illustrated by Harold..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Two volumes. 8vo. vi, [ii], 358; [vi], 335 pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece in each volume and 10 plates. Half-calf and marbled boards with matching endpapers, spines gilt; uncut, Volume 2 partially unopened and with some dampstaining. Both with the bookplate..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. 8vo. xv, 214 pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 28 plates. Original green cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, minor wear at head and foot of spine; uncut. First edition, one of 750 copies. “The following compilation aims to present the ‘Boston..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1904. Four volumes. 8vo. Each volume with frontispiece portrait of Washington. Half-calf and marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments. Joints starting with some wear to spines and corners, front cover of volume II unattached. From the library of Louis E. Goodman, with his bookplate. Later edition of..... More
Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchandlung, 1750-51; 1784-87. Six volumes. 4to. FIRST EDITIONS. Titles of first four volumes in red and black, text in double columns. Engraved frontispiece portrait in first volume. Contemporary paneled calf; light browning and some faint marginal damp-stains to Volumes I and II, but generally an excellent..... More
London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1758. 4to. [vii], [332] pp. Frontis portrait [after Holbein]. Two facsimiles. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary full mottled calf, five raised bands, morocco spine label. Damp-stain to top margin of a few pages, bookplate, some finger soiling. Joints split, boards attached by cords [rear..... More
Philadelphia: John E. Potter, 1865. 8vo. 476, [4] pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece. Gray pebbled cloth, decorated in gilt, some light wear (especially to corners) some chipping to head and foot of spine. Aside from a few minor smudges to first couple of pages, interior is very good. First..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1928. Two volumes. 8vo. xxviii, 607; vii. [ii], 741 pp. FIRST EDITION. Calf-backed paper boards with morocco spine labels; ex-libris markings to spine and interior. A fine uncut copy. First edition, 500 copies printed. Monaghan 2999. More
Boston: B.B. Russell and Company, 1866. 8vo. 216 pp. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Illustrated. Brown embossed cloth, extremities rubbed, spine frayed, boards a little discolored; light foxing. A very good copy. First edition, second printing of the first biography published after Lincoln's assassination. Monaghan 543. More
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Norwich, Conn. Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1882. Two books in one, as issued. 8vo. 469; 483 pp. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with steel engravings. Publisher's full black roan with gilt embossed vignette on front cover and title in gilt on front cover and spine, extremities rubbed, rear joint starting, spine frayed;..... More
London: John Murray, 1874. 2 vols. 8vo. xvi, 360, [6]; viii, 346, 20 pp. Signature of Thos. Thornton, dated 1875, on both titles. Complete with the publisher's advertisements. With frontispiece portrait, 2 coloured folding maps (1 in a map pocket at the end of Volume I), and numerous illustrations. Original..... More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1873. 8vo. [vi], 213, [5] pp. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, WITH THE ERRATA LEAF. Complete with half-title, errata leaf and 2 pages of advertisements. Original green cloth; light foxing on the preliminary and last blank leaves. From the library of Theodore Rathbone, with his..... More
[Philadelphia]: [College of Physicians of Philadelphia], 1920. 8vo. 31 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original green boards, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, some light spotting to upper cover; a fine, uncut copy from the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker, with his bookplate. First edition of this oration which was delivered..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950. 8vo. vii, [v], 279 pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title. With frontispiece, 2 plates, notes and index. Original blue publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lightly worn at head and foot. First edition of this biography of the renowned author and physician. Earnest (b.1901) was..... More
New York: International Universities Press, Inc., [1952]. 8vo. xv, [i], 207 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original red publisher’s cloth, in original yellow dust-jacket. First edition of this biography of the literary life of the renowned physician and author. “The present book describes Mitchell’s development as a pioneer psychiatrist and evaluates his..... More
Philadelphia: College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1912. 8vo. 59 pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 1 plate. Original stiff wrappers, paper label to upper cover; frontispiece detached, but present. First edition. The letters referred to are those that were published by the Historical MSS Commission. BAL, 6, 14271; Osler, 721..... More
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1924. 8vo. [iv]ff. 400, [4] pp. 9 portraits, 2 text illustrations and facsimile letter. Original printed wrappers, detached but in excellent condition. Uncut copy in slipcase. More
Montreal: Privately issued, 1927. 8vo. [6], xl, 634 pp. FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION. With frontispiece and 36 photographic plates.Blue cloth. International Association of Medical Museums, Bulletin No. IX. Sirwilliam Osler Memorial Number. Second impression. Limited to 3,000 numbered copies. More
(1). Annotated answers to the 1902 examination of Osler's Principles. . . . Annals of Internal Medicine, September 1973, pp. 460-72; (2). JAMA. William Osler commemorative issue. Vol. 210, No. 12, December 22, 1969. pp. 2213-69. Wrappers; (3). Sir William Osler Memorial Number, Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 84, no..... More
Plymouth, Mass. Ezra Collier, 1829. 8vo. 312, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Linen backed-boards, soiled, spine deteriorated, upper board nearly detached; browned and spotted, heavy in parts. First edition. “This volume is the production of a youth, who had scarce exceeded the age of minority, before death put a period to..... More
Belleville, IL: privately published, 1855. 8vo. 600, xxiii, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of author. Original brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, front joint starting, very light wear to extremities; other than some scattered foxing, an excellent copy with a contemporary ownership inscription. More
