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PRACTICAL NURSING. A Text-Book for Nurses.
Maxwell, Anna Caroline & Pope, Amy Elizabeth [1869 - 1949].
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1923). Fourth Edition, Rewritten and Much Enlarged. xv, [1 (blank)], 949, [7] pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts at rear. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. Blue-grey cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & front board. Printed buff paper dust jacket. Uncommon..... More
The DUBLIN PRACTICE Of MIDWIFERY.
Maunsell, Henry [1806 - 1879]. Madden, Thomas More - Editor.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. 1st printing of the "New Edition, Enlarged and Revised" xiv, 315, [1 (blank)], 32 pp. Text block mostly unopened. 32 page March 1872 publisher catalogue at rear. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Light brown eps.....	More
The ESSENTIALS Of MATERIA MEDICA And THERAPEUTICS.
Nightingale, Florence [1820 - 1910] - Presenter. Garrod, Alfred Baring. Baxter, E. Buchanan - Editor.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1877. Sixth Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED by Nightingale, all in pencil, on the half-title page. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 517, [3] pp. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Modern binding of full brown calf, stamped in blind. Nightingale presents the book to "Nurse Webb", adding "delivered from..... More
HOW To NURSE SICK CHILDREN: Intended Especially as a Help to the Nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children;; But Containing Directions Which May be Found of Service to All Who Have the Charge of the Young.
[West, Charles. 1816 - 1898].
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 261 Pearl Street. R. Craighead, Printer. 53 Vesey street, 1855. 1st US Edition. vi, [7] - 69, [3] pp. Last 2 pages publisher advert. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with title gilt stamped to front board. Pale yellow eps.....	More
SCENES In The LIFE Of A NURSE.
Sister Eva [believed to be Lückes, Eva Charlotte Ellis. 1854 - 1919 - Matron to the London Hospital].
London: Bemrose & Sons, 1890. 1st Edition. xx, 102, xxi - xxxviii pp. Roman numbered pages filled with adverts for medicinal, health-related products, trusses and foods. Frontispiece albumen photograph of Sister Eva. Facsimile inscription underneath. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's red cloth binding.....	More
The CRUEL SIDE Of WAR With The ARMY Of The POTOMAC. Letters the Headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission During the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862.
[US Nursing History / Civil War]. Wormeley, Katharine Prescott [ 1830 - 1908].
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1898. 2nd edition, and 1st edition with this title (cf. Nevins II, p. 139). ix, [5], 210 pp (including Index). T.p. printed in red & black. Frontis + 2 inserted portrait plates. Sanitary Commission medallion to t.p. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Original green cloth binding with gilt.....	More
A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE The PUPILS Of The SCHOOL For NURSES, Charity Hospital, N. Y., October 6th, 1875, on the Nursing of the Insane.
MacDonald, A[lexander]. E. [1845 - 1906].
[New York]: Bellevue Press, 1875. 1st printing (Cardasco 70-2263). 24 pp. "Compliments" presentation slip tipped-in at front. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's printed pale grey paper covers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Alexander E. MacDonald, M.D. was a prominent American physician and psychiatrist, and a leader..... More
NURSING Of CHILDREN.
Sellew, Gladys.
Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1945. 5th edition, 5th printing. 579, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated. 8" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Printed pale blue paper dust jacket.	More
The BLUE PINAFORE. Volume I.
[Nursing History]. Kelsey, Ethel - Editor.
Oakland, California: Published by the Student Nurses of the Fabiola School of Nursing, 1925. 1st Printing. 74, [6 (adverts)] pp. Atricles throughout on divers aspects of nursing, e.g., pp 39 - 41, "A Little Glimpse of Public Health Nursing", Elizabeth Gordon Fox & pp 42 - 43, "Peaks in the.....	More
ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL Of NURSING.; Conducted Under The Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine.
[Class Yearbook]. McKeen, Bertha - Editor. Lancaster, Virginia - Former Owner.
Cleveland, Ohio: 1921. 1st Edition. 67, [11] pp. Illustrated with drawings and with b/w photographic images. 10-1/2" x 7-7/8". Powder blue pebbled sheep binding with blue floral patterned-paper eps. Gilt stamped title to front cover. NB. Binding appears later, not original. Scarce yearbook from this School of Nursing in Cleveland..... More
WORLD WAR I PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM.
[American Red Cross / WWI].
Toronto ? 1915. 25 leaves of black mounting paper, 19 pages of which have 85 b/w photographs affixed thereon. Two pages at front with captions to photographs, one of which states, "The Start - Toronto 1915". Photos range in size from 3/4" x 3/4" to 3-1/8" x 4-1/2". Album: 5-3/4".....	More
FAMILY THERMOMETRY; A Manual of Thermometry, for Mothers, Nurses, Hospitalers, Etc., and All Who Have Charge of the Sick and the Young.
Seguin, Edward [1812 - 1880]. Choate, George Cheyne Shattuck [1827 - 1896] - Former Owner (?).
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, 1873. 1st Edition (Atwater 3137). 72 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Text illustrated with 2 cuts of thermometers, and a few graphs. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5". Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with black stamping. Born in France, Seguin emigrated..... More
A HAND - BOOK Of NURSING For Family and General Use. Published Under the Direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
Committee of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880. A later issue of the 1st edition of this important early American nursing text, initially published in 1879. Cf. Cordasco 70-1507. 266 pp (including Index). 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Publisher's original green cloth binding, with gilt stampd spine lettering & black stamped lettering.....	More
PROMISE On PARNASSUS. The First Century of the UCSF School of Nursing.
Flood, Marilyn E.
San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, 2007. 1st edition. SIGNED by the author on the t.p. xiii, 191 pp. Illustrated. 11-1/4" x 8-3/4". Creme cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Pictorial glossy dust jacket. Bright blue bookmark ribbon.	More
HOSPITAL SISTERS And Their DUTIES.
Lückes, Eva C[harlotte]. E[llis. 1854 - 1919] - Matron to the London Hospital.
London: J. & A. Churchill 11, New Burlington Street, 1886. 1st Edition. [8], 164, [4] pp. Publisher adverts last 4 pages. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Somewhat uncommon book on the subject, with OCLC reporting just 4 cc held..... More
TRADE CARD. U. S. Sanitary Commission, "The Home," for Mothers, Wives, Nurses and Relatives of Solders, Annapolis, Md.
Henries, H. C.
[Annapolis?]: (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1864. Card printed recto only. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The USSC established offices and storehouses, and homes for soldiers and their relatives, throughout Maryland during the war, in Annapolis, Baltimore, Frederick, and Sharpsburg. The main purpose of these USSC stations was..... More
NOTES On HOSPITALS: Being Two Papers Read Before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Liverpool, in October, 1858. With Evidence Given to the Royal Commissioners on the State of the Army in 1857.
Nightingale, Florence [1820 - 1910].
London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1859. First Edition [Bishop & Goldie 100 (iii); Garrison - Morrison 1611]. [8], 108, 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue at rear. Charts, including one fold-out, 8 intra-textual figures & 4 fold-out plates at rear. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown.....	More
The MOTHER At HOME; or, The Principles of Maternal Duty Familarly Illustrated.
Abbott, John S[tevens]. C[abot. 1805 - 1877].
Boston / New-York: Crocker and Brewster / Jonathan Leavitt, 1833. 3rd edition (American Imprints 17225). viii, [13] - 164 pp. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8". Original publishers green cloth spine over drab paper boards, with printed paper title label to spine. Abbott, a well-known Congregational clergyman, as well..... More
A CONCISE DESCRIPTION Of The ROYAL HOSPITAL for Seamen at Greenwich.; Extracted from the Historical Account Published by the Chaplains. Sold Only at the Hospital.
[Hospital History]. Cooke, John [1738 - 1823]. Maule, John [1748 - 1825].
[London]: 1791. 1st Printing thus. ESTC shows a 40 pp edition published the year prior (cf. ESTC T89941). [2], 42, [2 (blank)] pp. Title leaf a singleton, 2 mm short, tipped onto B1. Lacks half-title leaf. Fold out chart, "Fabric". 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Disbound, with binding remnants along spine.....	More
AUTOGRAPH NOTE [ANs], Signed. To Mrs Fulkes. Dated 16 July 1878. [accompanied by ]. Carte - de - Visite [CDV].
[London?]: 1878. Single sheet of stationery, with black border, mounted, along with a Lenthall [successor to Mr Kilburn] CDV of Nightingale. The CDV portrays Nightingale as she looked shortly after the Crimean War, ca late 1850s. Stationery: 4-7/16" x 7". CDV: 4-1/8" x 2-1/2". Frame: 11-1/8" x 17-1/4". Matted, and.....	More
CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH Of A NURSE.
Jordan, C. H. - Photographer.
Brooklyn, N. Y. C. H. Jordan, 485 Fulton Street, (n. d.). Ca late 1890s. Image portrays the nurse standing next to a small table, on which is found a jar of tonic, and a glass with pipette. Photograph: 5-7/16" x 4-1/8". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16". Albumen photograph mounted on dark.....	More
SIX HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS Of The WATSONVILLE SANATORIUM.
[California - Photography].
[Watsonville, CA ?]: (n. d.). Ca early 1900s? Divers sizes. 4 mounted. All now housed in archival mylar sleeves. Here offered a group of 6 early b/w photographs of the Watsonville Sanatorium, also known as the Watsonville Sanitarium. None are dated or credited but all provide exterior views of this..... More
AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed [on] U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION Letterhead.; Addressed to Rev. E. McCravath. June 8th, 1865.
Philips, [?] N.
(n. p.): 1865. Single sheet, mss handwriting both sides, 43 lines, ~ 6 words per line, ~ 250 words. Includes a prior owner typewritten transcription of the letter [with, regrettably, some inaccuracies, e.g., Mrs DePew called DePen]. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8". Envelope: 3" x 5-1/4". Envelope with Atlanta June 9th postmark.....	More
The AMERICAN HOSPITAL Of The TWENTIETH CENTURY.; A Treatise on the Development of Medical Institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the Beginning of the Present Century.
Stevens, Edward F. [1860 - 1946].
New York: Architectural Record Publishing Company, 1918. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the author. [12], 274, [2 (blank)] pp. Profusely illustrated with plans, diagrams & from photographs. Royal 8vo. 10-1/8" x 7-1/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front cover. While well represented..... More
POCKET BOOK On TRAY And TROLLEY SETTING.; Foreword by McInroy, I. G.
Dickie, Helen M. McInroy, I. G. - Contributor.
Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1959. 1st Edition. viii, 167, [1] pp (including Index). Extensively illustrated with 94 drawings detailing the many divers tray / trolley layout configurations. 12mo. 5-1/2" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's maroon faux leather flexible covers with gilt stamped lettering. A popular, oft published..... More
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