EARLY AMERICAN MEDICAL IMPRINTS: A guide to works printed in the United States 1668-1820 by AUSTIN,Robert B - 1961-01-01

At head of title: National Library of Medicine. "In this work, medicine has been interpreted in its wider sense to include nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, child care, hygiene, first aid, education, and psychology; quackery, faith cures, and astrological medicine are also encompassed. Some works on veterinary medicine, compilations of morbidity and mortality statistics, and legislative works pertaining to medicine are included... of botany and chemistry only theses and syllabi are included... The titles listed here are books, pamphlets, theses, and broadsides; 36 periodical titles... have been interspersed to round out the pattern of medical publications issued in the pre-1821 period." Bookplate of Dr. Irving Addison Beck of Providence RI. Includes 25-sheet xerox copy (one side only) of Early American Medical Imprints in the Library of Duke University Medical Center. x, 240 pages, chronological index; bound by Knowlton in grey cloth, original front paper cover pasted on; Good+. Stock#ofc0400.

Washington, DC: USD HEW. VG ex lib. 1961. rebind EX LIB. hardcover. 12mo . 240pp . Mass. Historical Society library rebind, MHS olabel stamped cancelled. .

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. TPB. G+. 8x5x0. GOOD-PLUS TRADE-PAPERBACK

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino, 1999. Limited edition facsimilie reprint of the original edition. Fine. Limited edition facsimilie reprint of the original edition. x, 240p. Gilt-titled gray cloth. An author listing of more than 2100 published works.

Washington: U.S. Dept. Of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1961. x, 240p., original stiff wrappers. At head of t.p.: National Library of Medicine.

Washington: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1961. Hardcover. Octavo, x, 240 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is grey with blue print. Boards in grey cloth with blue print. "National Library of Medicine"- at head of title. 1372336. FP New Rockville Stock.

Martino Fine Books, 1999 8vo (23 cm), X, 240 pp. Publisher's cloth. This important bibliography includes every medical work, interpreted in its widest sense, even some material pertaining to veterinary medicine, vital statistics and medical legislation. Over 2,106 entries are described: books, pamphlets, theses and broadsides, and thirty-six periodical titles. The book is arranged in alphabetical order with the author's name, title, place of printing, printer and date of publication. Added to this is a short description with number of pages and size.

Washington: U.S. Department of health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, a noted medical bibliographer and historian, and warmly inscribed to his colleague Irvin Pizer, whose designer bookplate appears on the endpaper. Compiled for the national Library of medicine, this is still the best resource for the study of early American medical imprints. Original cream-colored buckram with black titles. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.