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Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, printed wrappers, housed in later half cloth and marbled board binder, ex-Bowdoin College Library with its discard bokplate inside front cover, iv, 40; 18pp. Oliver Wendell Holmes delivered the Dedicatory Address (see BAL IV, p. 332), and other contributors includes J. S. Billings MD, Justin Winsor, President Eliot, and H. I. Bowdith. A Very Good copy.
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Printed wrappers. 39, 18pp. Light edgewear, near fine. Chadwick's report is paginated separately from the Holmes address.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Printed wrappers. 39, 18pp. Small "duplicate" stamp from a club library, light wear, a very good copy. Inscribed by Chadwick: "Dr. Fordyce Barker with regards of James R. Chadwick." Chadwick's report is paginated separately from the Holmes Address. Fordyce Barker was a leading physician, author, and president of the New York State Medical Society, and later president of the New York Academy of Medicine. He attended Ulysses S. Grant in his final illness.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-94). Dedication of the new building and hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878 . . . [2], 39, [1], 18pp. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1881. 213 x 163 mm. Original light blue printed wrappers, spine chipped and split but holding, minor soiling and creasing. Edges a bit frayed but on the whole good to very good. From the library of S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914), inscrib $1500 James Chadwick, librarian of the Boston Medical Library arranged for the publication of this reprint of Holmes's dedicatory address, first published in 1879. The reprint also contains additional contributions by various members of the Association, including the "Sixth annual report made to the Boston Medical Library Association" by James Chadwick, the BMLA's librarian. Chadwick presented this copy to Silas Weir Mitchell, one of the founders of medical neurology; like Holmes, Mitchell was both a physician and a poet. Currier and Tilton, Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, p. 172. .
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.