Some Aeronautical Experiments
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1903. The Smithsonian issue of Wright's seminal report on he and his brother's... Read More about Some Aeronautical Experiments
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The Psychodynamics of Family Life. Diagnosis and Treatment of Family Relationships.
New York: Basic Books, 1958. Second printing. Inscribed to Burgess Meredith. Inscribed to Burgess Meredith. Read More about The Psychodynamics of Family Life. Diagnosis and Treatment of Family Relationships
Price: $200
Rare pamphlet outlining the A.A. program
So You Can't Stop Drinking? Here's How to Get a Permanent Seat on the Wagon.
[Chicago: Herald-American, ca.1950]. Rare pamphlet outlining the A.A. program. A rare pamphlet from the early years of Alcoholics Anonymous, written by a midwest newspaper reporter and providing a detailed and positive overview of the program.The pamphlet prints in full a series of six articles written by Elgar Brown for the..... Read More about So You Can't Stop Drinking? Here's How to Get a Permanent Seat on the Wagon
Price: $250
High Baroque Ideal Human Proportions
Les Proportions du Corps Humain, Mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité.
Paris: Chez Girard Audran, Graveur du Roy, rue S. Jacques, aux deux Piliers d'or, 1783. First edition. High Baroque Ideal Human Proportions. A detailed and elaborate study of the ideal human proportions as derived from the measurement of ancient sculpture, by one of the greatest engravers and etchers of his..... Read More about Les Proportions du Corps Humain, Mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité
Price: $2,000
Signed by Orville Wright
Photograph of Orville Wright with Major Albert B. Lambert seated in the Wright Flyer, 1910, signed by Orville Wright at...
n.p: [1910]. Signed by Orville Wright. Signed by Orville Wright at the right of the image. Albert Bond Lambert was the son of a pharmaceutical magnate and an early St. Louis flight enthusiast; he purchased a flyer from the Wright brothers in 1909, and took flight lessons from Orville Wright..... Read More about Photograph of Orville Wright with Major Albert B. Lambert seated in the Wright Flyer, 1910,...
Price: $4,500
![ALS to [Edward L.Youmans], the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." Alexander Bain, British...](/pictures/thumb/31434.jpg?v=1534804116)
ALS to [Edward L.Youmans], the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly."
London: 30th May, [1876?]. Writing of his disappointment that the printer had not yet sent the proof of his Education article and worrying that it might be late. Bain was the author of several books including “Logic” and “Mind and Body” and “Senses and the Intellect.” He founded the periodical..... Read More about ALS to [Edward L.Youmans], the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly."
Price: $150
Founder of Neurology in England
Autograph letter signed "H. Carlton Bastian"
London: 20 Queen Anne Street, 11 March 1879. Founder of Neurology in England. Asking after Youmans following his accident, noting that he had tried to reach Youmans when he was in England but found that he had left the day before. Writing that he had he no photograph of Clifford..... Read More about Autograph letter signed "H. Carlton Bastian"
Price: $300
A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia), its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences, Treatment.
New York: William Wood and Company, 1880. Beard's significance in his field derives from his argument for the methodical study of neurosis, his efforts to end social condemnation of its sufferers, and his understanding of the connections between mental illness and social organization. Although some viewed Beard as a charlatan..... Read More about A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia), its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences,...
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De la Suggestion et de ses applications à la Thérapeutique.
Paris: 1886. "Bernheim, a professor in the Faculté de médecine at Nancy, began studying hypnotism, suggestion and hysteria after observing Liébeault's method of treatment by induced sleep. After two years of working closely with Liébeault, Bernheim published the present work in which he stated that hypnosis was not a pathological..... Read More about De la Suggestion et de ses applications à la Thérapeutique
Price: $400
Hypnotisme suggestion psychotérapie. Etudes nouvelles.
Paris: Octave Doin, 1891. First edition. Garrison-Morton: "Like Liebeault, Bernheim studied the scientific application of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent phenomena as being the result of suggestion." Read More about Hypnotisme suggestion psychotérapie. Etudes nouvelles
Price: $400
Allgemeine Artzney. In dreyen Theilen verfasset: der erste handelend, von der Gesundheit … der andere, Von der Ungesundheit ... der...
Frankfurt: Fievet, 1674. Second edition, with additional third part on surgery. Manual on medicine and surgery by the Dutch physician Johannes von Beverwyck (1594-1647). Wellcome refers to this edition as a "Reprint of 1671 ed., with addition of Chirurgia”. Read More about Allgemeine Artzney. In dreyen Theilen verfasset: der erste handelend, von der Gesundheit … der...
Price: $2,500
L'Étude Expérimentale et de Psychologie.
Paris: C. Reinwald...Schleicher Freres & Cie, 1903. First edition. Read More about L'Étude Expérimentale et de Psychologie
Price: $350
On Hallucinations: A history and explanation of apparitions, visions, dreams, ecstasy, magnetism, and somnambulism. By A. Brierre de Boismont. Tr...
London: Henry Henshaw, 1859. First English edition. Read More about On Hallucinations: A history and explanation of apparitions, visions, dreams, ecstasy, magnetism,...
Price: $150
The Bolton Drug Co. Illustrated Price List.
Brooklyn, N.Y: 264-266-268 & 270 Fulton Street, c. 1889. Read More about The Bolton Drug Co. Illustrated Price List
Price: $275
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. XXVII, No. 24.
Boston: JAN, 18, 1843. Signed on last leaf "Dr. E. Parmly Bond St." Read More about The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. XXVII, No. 24
Price: $150
Traité complet de l'Hypochondrie... Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie royale de Médecine.
Paris - Lyon: B [et] Germer Baillière Librairie - Charles Safy Jeune Librairie-Éditeur, 1844. First edition. Read More about Traité complet de l'Hypochondrie... Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie royale de Médecine
Price: $375
Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation upon Health.
Hartford: F.J. Huntington, 1832. First edition. Hunter & McAlpine call this a 'popular...guide to mental hygiene with the stress on social influences.." Brigham was a pyschiatrist who became the first superindendant of the Utica Psychiatric Cente in 1842 and in 1844, became one of the founding members of the Association..... Read More about Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation upon Health
Price: $400
Parmly Copy (from the family)
Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, and Their Proper Remedies. By Solyman Brown, A.M. with Notes, Practical...
New York: Peabody & Co., 219 Broadway, 1833. First edition. Parmly Copy (from the family). "This classical poem was a marked literary production, considering the subject, and was extensively quoted at the time and favorably commented on by the best critics and writers in the profession, and had a great..... Read More about Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, and Their Proper Remedies. By Solyman Brown,...
Price: $800
Observations on Abortion: Containing an Account of the Manner in which it takes place, the Causes which produce it and...
Troy, N.Y: Printed by Wright, Goodenow, and Stockwell, 1808. First American edition. Previously published in England in 1806, then again with revisions in 1807; this first American edition is based on the revised edition of 1807. Read More about Observations on Abortion: Containing an Account of the Manner in which it takes place, the Causes...
Price: $750
Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde: ein Leitfaden bei akademischen Vorlesungen und bei dem Studium des Faches.
Marburg: Chr. Garthe, 1829. First edition. Read More about Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde: ein Leitfaden bei akademischen Vorlesungen und bei dem Studium des Faches
Price: $400
Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme.
Paris: 1805. Seconde édition revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'auteur. With half titles. Cabanis's greatest work. Read More about Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme
Price: $500
Visions: A Study of False Sight (Pseudopia.)...With an Introduction and Memorial Sketch by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge [London: Trübner & Co.], 1878. Holmes edited this last book by his classmate and friend Edward H. Clarke (1820-77), an essay left unfinished at Clarke’s death. It is a study of hallucinations and visions, and what causes them. The effects of..... Read More about Visions: A Study of False Sight (Pseudopia.)...With an Introduction and Memorial Sketch by Oliver...
Price: $125
Variations and Diseases of the Teeth of Animals.
London: John Bale, 1936. First edition. Signed by Ashley Montagu. Read More about Variations and Diseases of the Teeth of Animals
Price: $300
The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart, F.R.S. Surgeon to the King.
Philadelphia: 1839. Fifth American from the Last London Edition. Read More about The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart, F.R.S. Surgeon to the King
Price: $150
Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery.
London: John Thomas Cox, 1835. Eighth Edition. Signed: "Wm. Loughridge Manchester October 10/36." and with his stamp "Dr W. Loughridge No. 45" on title page. Read More about Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery
Price: $150