Fitch samuel sheldon md (7 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. "And causes, prevention, and cure of consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart; on the laws of longevity, and on the mode of preserving male and female health to an hundred years. With 28 illustrations, designed for all classes of readers." Cover has edgewear, is faded, and has a couple of stains; interior is very good. Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo, printed wrappers, 44pp. A few leaves lightly foxed. ATWATER/HOOLIHAN #1173 (citing a printing circa 1849). A good+ copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 8vo, original cloth, a little spine wear, frontispiece, 348pp., ads. Line drawn text illustrations. Foxed throughout. ATWATER/HOOLIHAN 1181.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG- (Very Good Minus). Condizione sovraccoperta: NDAI (No Dust Jacket As Issued. Publisher's dark brown cloth with decorative blindstamping to boards and elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Light edgewear and rubbing; spine ends and corners lightly bumped with fraying starting; 3/8" hole in front hinge and a tiny puncture to rear hinge. Light foxing and soil to text block. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. B/w illustrations. Early prev owner name penned to ffep. Small sticker ghost to front pastedown. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 324 pp.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. The 1847 1st edition. Solid and VG in its dark-brown boards, with decorative blindstamping to the panels and bright gilt-lettering and elaborate lattice along the spine. Former owner name at the front free endpaper, light foxing to the preliminaries and a bit in the text, small chips to the rear endpapers. 12mo, 324 pgs.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First edition. Good Spine gone. Book is disbound. Cover has some shelf rubbing to it. Pages have small brown spots. Disbound. Edges os the cover are worn. And some pages are torn.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. 8vo. [3], iv-xv, [4], 20-384, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Blindstamped brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Dr. Fitch, and with thirty or so in-text engravings of the lungs, the heart, the bladder, internal organs, the rib cage as its affected by consumption, and several other anatomical diagrams. The twenty-fourth edition. Fitch seems to have published this text to advertise several of his own "medical products" to aid in the fight against tuberculosis, aid against bad posture, and to help extend the lifespan. Fitch's book includes portaits of men and women he claims to have lived to 160 years or longer. A reprint of spurious medical advice, fascinating in its depiction of rudimentary medical knowledge. Sunning to the spine and the front hinge slightly shaken (binding is secure), leaves show light pencil marginalia.…