1851. WARREN, J. Mason. AN ACCOUNT OF TWO REMARKABLE INDIAN DWARFS EXHIBITED IN BOSTON under the name of Aztec Children. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, New Series NO. XLII (April 1851), pp.286-293. Philadelphia, Blanchard & Lea, 1851. With two woodcut illustrations. A cold and inhuman account of two children, with..... More
1887. WATERS, A. T. H. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLINICAL AND PRACTICAL MEDICINE. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1887. 195 pp. + 14 pp. publisher's advertising + 2 pp. index. 8vo., maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near fine, minor shelfwear, interior perfect. B/w illustrations. More
1922. WEBER, F. Parkes. POLYCYTHAEMIA AND ERYTHROCYTOSIS AND ERYTHRAEMIA (Vaquez-Osler Disease). New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1922. 148pp. Slim 4to., brick cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Very light sun to spine and top-edge of front board; some shelfwear, especially at spine tips. Some pencil notations..... More
riocreux. WEDDELL, Hugh Algernon. HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES QUINQUINAS, ou Monographie du Genre Chinchona, suivie d'une Description du Genre Cascarella et de quelques autres Plantes de la meme Tribu. Ouvrage accompagnee de 21 Planches dessinees par Riocreux et de Steinheil. Paris: Victor Masson, 1849. First edition of Weddell's major work. Illustrated..... More
1900. [WELCH, William Henry] CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE DEDICATED BY HIS PUPILS TO WILLIAM HENRY WELCH ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DOCTORATE. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1900. vii + 1066 pp. Stout 8vo., red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Personal bookplate to front pastedown. Fair, block detached..... More
1914. WETTERER, Josef. HANDBUCH DER RONTGENTHERAPIE NEBST ANHANG: DER RADIOAKTIVEN SUBSTANZEN IN DER THERAPIE. EIN LEHRBUCH FUR ARZTE UND STUDIERENDE. BAND I. Leipzig: Otto Nemnich, 1913-1914. x + 411 pp. + 14 pp. publisher's advertising. 8vo., green cloth with white spine and cover lettering, red edges. Ex-library with usual markings..... More
1791. WHITE, Charles. A TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF PREGNANT AND LYING-IN WOMEN, AND THE MEANS OF CURING, BUT MORE ESPECIALLY OF PREVENTING THE PRINCIPAL DISORDERS TO WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE. Together with some New Directions concerning the Delivery of the Child and Placenta in Natural Births. Illustrated with cases..... More
1813. WHITE, Gilbert. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, by the late Rev. Gilbert White, A. M., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. To which are added, The Naturalist's Calendar Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems. A new edition, with engravings. In two volumes. London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co., (et al.), 1813..... More
1802. WHITE, Gilbert. THE WORKS, IN NATURAL HISTORY, OF THE LATE REV. GILBERT WHITE, A.M. ... COMPRISING THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE; THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR; AND MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS, EXTRACTED FROM HIS PAPERS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A CALENDAR AND OBSERVATIONS, BY W. MARKWICK, ESQ. F.L.S. VOL II. London: Printed for..... More
1912. WILBERT, Martin I. & Murray Galt MOTTER. DIGEST OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN FORCE IN THE UNITED STATES RELATING TO THE POSSESSION, USE, SALE, AND MANUFACTURE OF POISONS AND HABIT-FORMING DRUGS. Public Health Bulletin No. 56, November, 1912. 278 + v pp. Together with: POISONS AND HABIT-FORMING DRUGS: A...... More
1811. WILLDENOW, D.C. [Actually Willdenow, Karl Ludwig]. THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. Translated from the German. A New [Second] Edition, Greatly Enlarged by the Author. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1811. Octavo. [4] ff., iv, 544 pp. + 11 ff. plates, one hand-colored. Willdenow was the Director of the Berlin Botanical..... More
1878. WILLS, George S. V. A MANUAL OF VEGETABLE MATERIA MEDICA. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1878. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. With a large folding, colored world map, and 25 leaves of colored, lithographic plates showing 158 illustrated specimens. Octavo. 114 pp. + 25 ff. plates + [36] pp..... More
1809. WILSON, A. Philips. A TREATISE ON FEBRILE DISEASES, INCLUDING INTERMITTING, REMITTING, AND CONTINUED FEVERS; ERUPTIVE FEVERS; INFLAMMATIONS; HEMORRHAGIES; AND THE PROFLUVIA...TWO VOLUMES. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1809. First American edition from the second English edition. 501/615 pp. Full mottled calf with gilt red leather spine labels. Volume I front..... More
1818. WILSON, J[ames]. PHARMACOPOEIA CHIRURGICA: OR, A MANUAL OF CHIRURGICAL PHARMACY, comprising all the valuable formulae of the new London pharmacopoeia, and of the several pharmacopoeias appertaining to this branch of science, with notes and observations, as well on the method of compunding, as likewise on the properties and use..... More
1832. WOODVILLE, William. MEDICAL BOTANY: Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburg, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmacopoeias. [...]..... More
1910. YERKES, Robert M. & Daniel Bloomfield. DO KITTENS INSTINCTIVELY KILL MICE? Reprinted from the Psychological Bulletin, August, 1910, Vol. VII, pp. 253-263. Small 4to., printed wrappers. Inkstamp at top edge of front cover: "Compliments of Robert M. Yerkes." Minor edgewear, top corner bumped. Study done at Harvard's Psychological Laboratory..... More
1755. [VON HALLER, Albrecht] ZIMMERMANN, Johann Georg. DAS LEBEN DES HERRN VON HALLER. Zurich: Heidegger and Company, 1755. First edition. [38], 430 pp, [2] + 14 pp. smaller (7.25 x 4.25 inches) handwritten booklet tipped in at rear, what appears to be an index. 8vo., original 18th century paper covered..... More
1872. ZOLLNER, Johann Carl Friedrich. UBER DIE NATUR DER COMETEN. BEITRAGE ZUR GESCHICHTE UND THEORIE DER ERKENNTNISS. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1872. Second edition. c pp. + 524 pp. + ten b/w plates + xii pp. + 32 pp. pamphlet DIE HOFMANN-FEIER ZU BERLIN IN URSPRUNGLICHER FORM. 8vo., green buckram (library..... More