John Tooth (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Unused copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book is a rare gem. It is the story of Dr Robert Storrs a family doctor in Doncaster in the first half of the 19th C. Unusually for the time he left detailed notes about his most interesting cases. He was ahead of his time in much of his medical thinking. The other source for this book is the 131 letters written between Robert and his wife Martha which are full of life, love and other observations of about life of the time. This book was written by a great, great grandchild of the subject who inherited the doctor's caseboks and letters. Ref YYY 2. …

Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. Fine in a near fine jacket PP 192, index, illustrations Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Humane and Heroic: The life and love of a 19th century country doctor by John Tooth. Used good overall. Dust jacket in used very good condition with a tear and scratch on the back. The actual book is in used good condition. Hardback. 2007. Signed copy reading Doncaster Royal Infirmary, John Tooth.…

Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, London - New York 1986-88. x, 441; xi, 608 pp. 2 volume. Hardcover. Bookplates. Fine condition.

Leather. Condition: Good. A collection of very scarce sermons and biographies relating to piety and death, all written by prolific preachers during an age of evangelicism. Seven very scarce writings relating to piety and death, including sermons, written by prolific preachers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Mrs. Mary Fletcher and John Wesley. Seven works bound in one volume, published between 1780-1820. In half contemporary calf, with dark blue pebble boards. Contains original front end papers, with blanks renewed to rear. Many of these writings are dedicated to pious individuals who recently passed away, including accounts of the life and death of Mrs. Fletcher's adopted daughte Sarah Lawrance, and later herself. The period of publishing was characterised by evangelicism across the Protestant West. - An Account of Sarah Lawrance; Many Years a Servant, or Adopted Daughter, Rather, of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, written by Mrs. Fletcher. Vanishingly scarce, with only four institutional copies of the work available across the UK. (1820, Thomas Cordeux, first published in 1801).- Memoir of Mowhee, a Young New Zealander who died at Paddington on Saturday, December 28th, 1816, in a Letter addressed to the Reverend Josiah Pratt, written by Rev. Basil Wood. The second edition. Vanishingly scarce, with only two institutional copies of this work available in the UK. Contains an engraved frontispiece (1817, Church Missionary Society).- A Letter to the Loving and Beloved People of the Parish of Madeley, and its Vicinity, Who Have Lost a Friend to Piety in the Death of Mrs. Fletcher, Widow of the Rev. J. W. Fletcher, Late Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire, written by Mary Tooth. (1816, William Smith).- A Short Account of the Experience of Mrs. H. A. Rogers, written by herself, with a brief extract from her diary. Editions earlier than 1800 are particularly scarce in commerce. (1793)- An Aunt's Advice to a Niece, written by Mary Fletcher as Mary Bosanquet. Missing title leaf. Vanishingly scarce, with only four institutional copies of this work in the UK (1780).- A Sermon Preached, on the Occasion of the Death of Mrs. Foster, at the chapel in Cherry Street, Birmingham, on Sunday Evening, Aug. 29, 1790, written by Joseph Benson (1790, E. Jones).- A Sermon, on Matthew XVIII. 15, 16, 17, written by John Wesley. Vanishingly scarce, with no institutional copies available. (1800, G. Story).- A Sermon addressed to Young People: Preached for New Year's Day, 1797, written by Melvill Horne. Contains original advertisements to the rear (1797, Privately printed for Horne). In half contemporary calf, with dark blue pebble boards. Contains original front end papers, with blanks renewed to rear. Externally, cracking to the center of the spine, and to the joints, with rear joint starting but firm. Rubbing to edges and slight browning to board extremities. A scratch through centre of front board. Knocks to extremities, and minor loss to head and tail of spine. Slight browning to end papers, with previous owner's ink inscription to front free end paper. End papers hinges starting. Internally, firmly bound. Small incisions to right edges of leaves pp.29-52 of Benson. Pages are generally bright and clean with slight age toning. The odd spot and patch of offsetting to Rogers and Niece. Good. Unknown (illustrator). book.…

E & FN Spon, London 1994. xvi, 491 pp. Hardcover. Bookplate. Fine conditon.