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Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good in boards, ex-library with usual markings and starting at inside front and back , minor chipping to board extremities. Small soil mark to last five pages otherwise clean.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
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Seller: Reed Books The Museum of Fond Memories, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in the original maroon (tan?) cloth, faded & soiled. Tips of spine worn. Bookplate inside front cover.
Seller: William H. Allen Bookseller, Shillington, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: An Introductory Lecture, Delivered before the Medical Class of Harvard University, November 6th, 1861. 80 pp. 12mo, publisher's embossed cloth. First edition; binding 1. BAL 8814. Spine slightly sunned; slight use to spine at extremities. A fresh, attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . . . . 1st ed. 1st issue. Sm 8vo, hardcover, green cloth. Sm chips in cloth at upper & lower spine and corners, 1" of rear spine hinge fraying; occasional foxing; pale 2" water stain at upper right corner of pgs. throughout, & similar 1" stain at lower corner of first 25 pgs. near hinge (none of this affecting text). Otherwise good, binding tight. 80 pp.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ticknor & Fields, 1862. Hard cover, first edition. Has a few markings from a private library, otherwise VG condition.
Seller: Turgid Tomes, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 80p. A near fine copy, the spine of which is faded (but the gold lettering is bright) and the spine is slightly cocked; the former owner's signature, town, date, and giver are on the front free endpaper. Brown blind-tooled cloth in remarkably clean condition. A very presentable copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 80p. Note original pagination errors in last signature. Bookplates of Bayard Henderson Christy, Ornithologist, 1899 and W. Emmert Swigart. Small 8vo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, embossed and lettered in blind. Spine lettered in gold. Slight sun fading top of front board. Holmes began his medical career as a general practitioner but shifted into academics, becoming professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth (1838-40), dean of Harvard Medical School (1847-82). He published two important medical lectures, including this one - promoting scientific discoveries in opposition to the practice of homeopathy, phrenology, and other `alternative' therapies. (The other was on the nature of fevers). His main fame though comes as a poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. Most famous of these are `The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table' (1858) and several subsequent volumes where he presents imaginary conversations at a Boston boardinghouse, full of Holmes's urbane opinions, charm, and wit. Heirs of Hippocrates 1750; Cushing H408; Waller 4848; Tilton Holmes Bibliography pp. 105-6; Cordasco 60-0901; BAL 8814/2. A better than very good copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 7 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo in blind-stamped light brown cloth backed boards; 80 pages ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Science. Medical education. History, 19th Century Science Medicine Education, Medical Médecine. Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. Sciences. Enseignement médical. medicines (material) sciences (philosophy) Science. Medical education. Medicine. Named Person: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Presentation inscription to J. Bigelow. Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 -- Presentation inscription from O. E. Holmes. Lecture lectures. Lectures. Publishers' advertisements. Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, author. About very good(-) ; binding tight and leaves mostly clean First edition presumed (copyright date and title page date identical).
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.15 + shipping
Description: [4], 80pp. Original publisher's brown blind-stamped buckram, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, some loss to head of spine, sunned, slight splitting to upper joint. Near contemporary ownership inscription to FFEP; 'Ed. W. Sawyer / Harvard Medical College / Boston / Mass / Dec. 18th 1870', with his armorial bookplate to FEP, later ink-stamps of 'I. N. Danforth' to FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. An introductory lecture on the principles of scientific thought by American physician, essayist and Fireside Poet Oliver Wendall Holmes (1809-1894), first delivered before students at Harvard Medical School on 6th November 1861. Holmes, who served as Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the university, provides an entertaining presentation on the constant flux of the medical sciences, warning of the susceptibility of the subject to controversy, the remarkable capacity physicians posses for self-deception, and the dangers of phrenology and other pseudosciences to proper practice Edward Warren Sawyer (b.1848), physician at Rush Medical College, Chicago, who's primary contribution to the medical sciences was the design of a unique pair of light-weight, curved forceps for use in outlet extractions. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ticknor and Fields; Boston, 1862. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good, brown cloth binding with blind stamping to front and rear boards, gilt title on spine and Ticknor & Co. gilt lettering on bottom spine, binding intact, some fraying top spine edge, some handling/scuffing to boards, rubbing along board edges, some sunning to spine, slightly cocked, bit of scattered foxing to front and back matters and text block edges, slightly cocked, without Dust wrapper. A nice, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 80pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, BAL binding 1 (with "TICKNOR & CO." in gilt on spine). [iv], 80 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. This lecture, first presented in 1861 to Holmes' medical class at Harvard, closes with his poem, "The Two Armies" BAL 8814; Currier/Tilton p. 105; Heirs of Hippocrates 1750; Cushing H408; Waller 4848 Brown ribbed cloth, spine stamped in gilt, spine ends and tips worn, contemporary ownership signature in pencil on first blank, a very good copy First edition, BAL binding 1 (with "TICKNOR & CO." in gilt on spine).
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 2 leaves, 80 pp. Original cloth. Top of spine worn. First Edition. Heirs of Hippocrates 1750. Currier & Tilton, A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, pp. 105-06.
Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$166.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo, terra-cotta cloth (hardcover), [iv], 80 pp. This copy includes a 4-page ALS from friend and fellow author, George William Curtis, dated Nov. 28, 1869, addressed to "My Dear Senator," describing a conversation he had with Holmes in 1869. Now, ending this lecture to the first year students at Harvard, he reminds them "You cannot all follow the armies of your country to the field. But remember that he who labors for the general good at home is an ununiformed soldier in the same holy cause with those who bear arms or minister at the side of the ambulance and in the camp hospital." Very clean and tight with a loose front free endpaper. Bearing the small red book label of collector Leroy Arthur Surgarman. Medicine, Literature, Civil War, Americana. KHS - X21
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 80 + 39 pages; "Astraea." being published in 1850, ".Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850"; Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) prolific American essayist, poet and long-time teacher, lecturer of anatomy at Harvard. (DAB), here stating in "Border Lines": ".science is the topography of ignorance."; bound in red pebbled cloth covered boards, red leather spine and corners, gilt ruling, gilt titles and spine compartment floral spray designs, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; a mid-nineteenth century British leather binding by W. Pratt for H. Stevens, with their stamp on the front endpaper bottom edge; some edge, tips wear to binding; contents in very good condition.
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Bolivia, NC, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Border lines of knowledge. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1862.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. , 1862.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Description: HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEDICAL CLASS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 1861. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Presentation copy inscribed to former owner "from the Author" in pencil on first blank recto. 80 pp. 8vo., brown pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth sunned and stained, light to moderate foxing in the text. A slip of paper with a contemporary-looking list of ink names is laid in. Binding tight. Very good.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth, blind-stamped cover with chocolate endpapers. Lightly rubbed cover with cloth frays at the corner and at the spine center. Otherwise secure binding with some bindery cracks. About 7-7/8 x 5 with 80 pages. Rare Civil War era book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Rose City Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1562.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. [9], 6-80; original brown cloth, BAL's binding 1; some cracking at the top of the spine, else a near fine copy, inscribed on the flyleaf by John Greenleaf Whittier: "Dr. T. Sparhawk from his fd [friend?] John G. Whittier, 24th 1st mo. 1862." The book was published just 2 days earlier, on January 22. Dr. Sparhawk, from Whittier's home town of Amesbury, Mass., was an early and intimate friend of Whittier's, and the father of the author Frances Campbell Sparhawk. BAL 8814.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.