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THE TRIAL OF MOSES ADAMS, HIGH-SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF HANCOCK, BEFORE THE SUPREME JUDICIAL...

[Adams, Moses]:

THE TRIAL OF MOSES ADAMS, HIGH-SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF HANCOCK, BEFORE THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ON AN INDICTMENT FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. [FROM MINUTES TAKEN AT THE TRIAL BY JOHN BULFINCH.] SECOND EDITION.

Boston: Printed and Published by E.B. Tileston, 1815. 32pp. Stitched, title page lightly foxed, a few other scattered fox spots. Untrimmed. Very Good. "Dr. Adams was acquitted of the murder of his wife, who had been killed with an ax in her kitchen at Ellsworth, Maine" [McDade]. "There was..... More

Price: $650.00

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM F.S. LYON OF DEMOPOLIS, TO GOVERNOR A.B. MOORE, 4 MARCH 1861,...

[Alabama in the Confederacy]:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM F.S. LYON OF DEMOPOLIS, TO GOVERNOR A.B. MOORE, 4 MARCH 1861, RECOMMENDING THE APPOINTMENT OF DR. WILLIAM C. ASHE AS SURGEON TO THE REGIMENT WITH RANK OF MAJOR.

Folio sheet, folded to 7-1/2" x 9-3/4." Written in neat ink manuscript on first two pages. Third page blank, docketed on page [4]. Very Good. Francis Strother Lyon [1800-1882], an Alabama lawyer and Democratic politician, wrote this letter to Governor Moore. Lyon had been a Whig Congressman in the 1830s..... More

Price: $275.00

Allen, J. Adams:

OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEDICAL PLATFORM. AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE BY...PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY, AND ACTING PROF. OF THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDICA, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, LATE PROF. MAT. MED., THERAP. AND MED. JURISP., IN THE INDIANA MEDICAL COLLEGE; MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS, SESSION 1853-54.

Detroit: Temperance Advocate Office, 1853. 29, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and loosening with scattered foxing. Good+. On the diversity of opinions and perceptions that characterize all eras, even though "the external sense is, undoubtedly, ever the same: the most skillful anatomist cannot detect the minutest shadow of diversity between the..... More

Price: $100.00

American National Red Cross:

NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR TRANSMITTING NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS, SHOWING RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES DURING THE PERIOD JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1913.

63rd Cong., 2nd Sess. HD1028. 1913. 57, [1 blank] pp, disbound, first page loosened. Light tanning. Very Good. More

Price: $15.00

Ames, Nathaniel:

AMES'S ALMANACK 1759.

Boston: Printed and Sold by Draper, Green & Russell, & Fleet. Price Two Pistareens per Dozen, and Five Coppers single. [1758]. 12 leaves [complete]. Disbound, last leaf loose, dusted, small repairs to margins of first leaf. Good. The first title has an illustration of the solar system and "the..... More

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AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY, OR, AN ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1755...CALCULATED FOR THE...

Ames, Nathaniel:

AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY, OR, AN ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1755...CALCULATED FOR THE MERIDIAN OF BOSTON, NEW-ENGLAND.

Boston, New-England: J. Draper, for the Booksellers, [1754]. 8 leaves (complete). Stitched. Upper right quadrant spotted, small hole in last leaf affects a couple of letters. Else Good+. On page14, above the details for December, the Almanac reads: "WHO 'ere presum'd, till FRANKLIN led the Way, / to climb..... More

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AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY: OR AN ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1754... CALCULATED FOR THE...

Ames, Nathaniel:

AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY: OR AN ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1754... CALCULATED FOR THE MERIDIAN OF BOSTON, NEW- ENGLAND.

Boston, New-England: J. Draper, for the Booksellers, [1753]. 8 leaves (complete). Stitched, dusted, text lightened on last page. Good+. "I have fill'd the two last Pages with an Essay upon Regimen." "The writer refers to the great number of deaths caused by the 'throat distemper or Pestilence Ulcusculosa'."..... More

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Ames, Nathaniel:

AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY: OR, ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1763.

Boston: Printed & Sold by J. Draper, in Cornhil... [1762]. 12 leaves, stitched, beginning to loosen. Light wear and soil, toned. Good+. Ames reminds his readers that "in general we know nothing of the Connection of Things, we cannot see the Links of that great Chain which binds with..... More

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Ames, Nathaniel:

AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY; OR ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST 1770.

Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1769]. 12mo. 12 leaves (complete), tanned, untrimmed, stitched. Some dusting and darkening, Good+. "This is the only known Boston edition of Ames for 1770, and presumably the one advertised in the Boston Evening Post, Dec. 4, 1769..." NAIP. New London..... More

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[Andrews, Samuel M.]:

FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF SAMUEL M. ANDREWS, FOR THE MURDER OF CORNELIUS HOLMES.

Plymouth: Memorial and Rock Press, 1868. 52pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers, with wrapper title, as issued. Near Fine. "Holmes was beaten to death with stones by Andrews, whom he had named as his heir in his will. The defendant pleaded insanity and self-defense, for he had had to..... More

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Barnard, Thomas:

A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, AT THE SEMIANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 10, 1794.

Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press, 1794. 25, [1 blank] pp, with the half title. Stitched and disbound. Scattered foxing. Good+. "The appendix, p. 18-25, is devoted to membership and other matters relative to the Society" [ESTC]. The Society promotes the "important interest of the civil community" by saving lives..... More

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REPORT OF THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF JOHN STEPHEN BARTLETT, M. D. VERSUS THE MASS. MEDICAL...

[Bartlett, John Stephen]:

REPORT OF THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF JOHN STEPHEN BARTLETT, M. D. VERSUS THE MASS. MEDICAL SOCIETY, AS GIVEN BEFORE A COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATURE, AT THE SESSION OF 1839. PRINTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE, BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE.

Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1839. 55, [1 blank] pp, stitched, untrimmed, light dustsoiling of untrimmed edges. Near Fine except for the absence of wrappers. "5/4 cts Postage" in ink on final blank. After the Massachusetts Medical Society had expelled him, Bartlett sought to revoke the Society's Charter. The..... More

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TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF DR. STEPHEN T. BEALE; WITH THE LETTERS OF CHIEF JUSTICE LEWIS, AND JUDGES...

[Beale, Stephen]:

TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF DR. STEPHEN T. BEALE; WITH THE LETTERS OF CHIEF JUSTICE LEWIS, AND JUDGES BLACK AND WOODWARD, ON HIS CASE. INTERESTING ETHER CASES, AND LETTERS OF PROF. GIBSON, PROF. WILTBANK, WM. BADGER, ESQ., W.L. HIRST, ESQ., REV. ALBERT BARNES, DR. HENRY A. BOARDMAN, &C.

Philadelphia: T.K. Collins, Jr., 1855. 30, [2 blanks] pp. Disbound, title page margins toned. Good+. Beale, a dentist, had allegedly raped his female patient after he anesthetized her with ether. The author laments, "If she had first consulted her mother after the supposed outrage had been perpetrated upon her, the..... More

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Beekman, James William:

CENTENARY ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL BY... MONDAY JULY 24 1871. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.

[New York]: 1871. 20pp, in original printed wrappers. Very Good. More

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[Beers, Andrew]:

HUTCHINS IMPROVED: BEING AN ALMANACK AND EPHEMERIS OF THE MOTIONS OF THE SUN AND MOON...FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1800. BY JOHN NATHAN HUTCHINS, PHILOM.

New York: Printed and Sold by H. Gaine, [1799]. [36] pp, as issued. Stitched, scattered light to moderate foxing, untrimmed. Good+. With contemporary ownership signature, and notes, of John Hetherington. Beers was the author, Hutchins having died in 1782 [ESTC]. This issue prints an advertisement for 'Moore's Gentleman and..... More

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Bell, Benjamin:

A SYSTEM OF SURGERY. EXTRACTED FROM THE WORKS OF BENJAMIN BELL, OF EDINBURGH: BY NICHOLAS B. WATERS, M.D. FELLOW OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA, AND ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS TO THE PHILADELPHIA DISPENSARY. ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES AND COPPERPLATES.

Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, 1791. viii, 570, xxix, [1] pp. Contemporary calf [spine repair]. Light to moderate scattered foxing. Twelve folding plates. Good+. "Bell studied under the Munros at Edinburgh. He was surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh for 29 years. He improved the methods of amputation, introducing the..... More

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Bell, Benjamin:

A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND MANAGEMENT OF ULCERS: WITH A DISSERTATION ON WHITE SWELLINGS OF THE JOINTS TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN ESSAY ON THE CHIRURGICAL TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. BY...MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, ONE OF THE SURGEONS TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.

Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1791. Original sheep [rubbed, front hinge starting] 295pp, one engraved plate [after page 56]. Text with scattered foxing, free endpaper tear. Good+. With the bookpoate of Newton Southworth of Mattapoisett. The first American edition, originally printed in Edinburgh in 1778. Thomas reprinted it..... More

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CONSTITUTION OF THE CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION OF THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT [AS AMENDED JANUARY 1,...

Boston Fire Department:

CONSTITUTION OF THE CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION OF THE BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT [AS AMENDED JANUARY 1, 1833.] INSTITUTED JUNE 19, 1828.

Boston: David Hooton...Printer...Merchants' Hall, 1835. 12pp, stitched in contemporary plain yellow wrappers. Title page vignette of the Department dousing a house fire. Very Good plus. This rare Charter of an early mutual aid society, evidently located only at the Boston Public Library, was established to assist injured Boston firemen, who..... More

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NOTICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS AND TENANTS. ALL PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED BY LAW FROM REMOVING HOUSE OFFAL,...

Boston, City of:

NOTICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS AND TENANTS. ALL PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED BY LAW FROM REMOVING HOUSE OFFAL, WITHOUT BEING LICENSED FOR THAT PURPOSE, BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, AND PROSECUTIONS WILL FOLLOW EVERY KNOWN VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCE ON THIS SUBJECT...

Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, City Printers, April 16, 1856. Broadside, 7 3/4" x 9". Signed in type at the end by D.J. Coburn, Chief of Police, and dated April, 16, 1856, at the Office of the Chief of Police. Light toning, Very Good. 'House Offal' is garbage. Hours..... More

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THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE; OR, A TRANSLATION OF THE ELEMENTA MEDICINAE BRUNONIS. WITH LARGE NOTES,...

[Brown, John]:

THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE; OR, A TRANSLATION OF THE ELEMENTA MEDICINAE BRUNONIS. WITH LARGE NOTES, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND COMMENTS. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINAL WORK. IN TWO VOLUMES.

Philadelphia: Printed by William Spotswood, 1791. xv, [1 blank], 295, [1 blank], [8] pp, folding chart frontis [expert repair on blank verso of a fold split]. Separate title page for volume II at page [133]. Bound in contemporary full sheep, gilt spine bands and leather title label. Rebacked, with original..... More

Price: $350.00

Caldwell, Charles:

A SEMI-ANNUAL ORATION, ON THE ORIGIN OF PESTILENTIAL DISEASES, DELIVERED BEFORE THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF PHILADELPHIA, ON THE 17TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1798. BY...SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY.

Philadelphia: Thomas and Samuel Bradford, 1799. xii, [13]-59, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and foxed, Good+ Caldwell argues that Philadelphia succumbed to the several yellow fever epidemics of the 1790's "through the channel of commerce," via "pestiferous air, generated by the putrefactive dissolution of the cargoes or ballast of vessels."..... More

Price: $350.00

Carson, Joseph:

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON THE OPENING OF THE SESSION OF 1860-61, IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, DELIVERED OCTOBER 8, 1860, BY JOSEPH CARSON, M.D., PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY. PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS.

Philadelphia: Wallace, Printer, 1858. 28pp. Disbound, Very Good. OCLC 51811011 [1-Natl. Libr. of Med.]. More

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Cattle:

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING DOCUMENTS RECEIVED FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, RELATIVE TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF CATTLE.

46th Cong., 3d Sess. SED5. 1880. 75pp, Disbound, color and other plates. Very Good. More

Price: $40.00

Chicago:

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO, FOR THE YEARS 1874 AND 1875.

Chicago: Bulletin Printing Company, 1876. Original printed wrappers [faint old rubberstamp], stitched, 109pp. Very Good. Much data on births, mortality from various causes, and public health programs and information during 1874 and 1875 FIRST EDITION. More

Price: $75.00

Childs, H.H. and J. Todd:

ADDRESSES OF H. H. CHILDS, M.D., AND REV. J. TODD, D.D., DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW COLLEGE BUILDING OF THE BERKSHIRE MEDICAL INSTITUTION, IN PITTSFIELD, MASS., AUGUST 5, 1852.

Pittsfield: William D. Axtell, Printer, 1852. 23pp, Disbound. Light wear, Very Good. More

Price: $25.00

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