Practitioner Physick, First Edition (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. Printed for the Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown PA. Inked name on endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Sunning/rubbing along front joint, mild moisture spotting to front cover cloth, both covers somewhat sunned toward fore-edges. Corners rubbed with minor exposure. Firm binding, clean interior. Former owner's name stamp on upper front flyleaf. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Moisture contact has resulted in dye lightening along top edge of cloth portion of both covers, otherwise minor shelf wear. Paint(?) mark along lower fore-edge of back cover, mild tanning to text block edges. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Rubbing with surface paper loss and discoloration along a portion of bottom back cover edge, bottom corners rubbed, otherwise essentially as issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. 1st ed. 9.5" tall; 175pp + large fold-out broadside + other glossy b/w plates; blue pattered paper over boards with title label on front; red linen backstrip with gilt lettering; cover is a bit dusty with light wear to corners. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. Spine panel mildly sunned, light tanning along several edges, otherwise essentially as issued. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. Spine panel mildly sunned, light tanning along several edges, otherwise essentially as issued. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. Spine panel a bit dulled by age, with one minor moisture spot on lower front cover cloth, otherwise essentially as issued. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. Spine panel very slightly soiled toward heel, with former owner's address stamp on front flyleaf, otherwise essentially as issued. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Edges moderately rubbed.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket -- As Published. First Edition. Bound in red quarter cloth and decorated blue boards, sans DW, as published; black & white plates; 175pp.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Plates (illustrator). First Edition. immaculate and tight, gift quality copy; bright red cloth spine, with printed paper sides; glassine dust jacket is chipped and worn at the edges; 175p., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. Well-preserved copy showing slight age darkening to red cloth, otherwise about as issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spotting to the spine and the adjacent edges of the covers. ; INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red 1/4 cloth, light blue decorated paper over boards, paper title label on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt. ix,175 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, including one fold-out. A notably well-preserved copy showing only slight sunning to a portion of front cover, otherwise as issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. ix, 175 p. Includes index. Occasional footnotes. Fold-out facsimile of a Broadside. The author was the Director of the Schwenkfelder Library. This is a story infinitely worth telling for it deals with an individual who was a consummate scholar at the age of twelve, an accomplished poet at fifteen, and an established physician at twenty-all in an age wuth formal edcuation was practically non-existent and legitimate medical practicw was just beginning. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some staining (damp? ). Scuff mark to fep. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is an Over-sized Biography of a German Immigrant to Pennsylvania in 1737. A Doctor and a Poet. This beautiful red cloth spine on a Decorated board Hardback is in Fine condition. no jacket. c1954, First Edition stated. This Sturdy & Firm book is in Wonderful condition both inside and out. It looks very lightly read if at all. The cover is Very clean & very bright. It has very nice edges with nice spine ends. The pages are tight & bright & unmarked, no names. 175 Pages. All books are securely packaged and Promptly Mailed. #23067-325.

ix, 1 leaf, 175 pp; illus. Original cloth-backed boards. Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [48], 165, [3] pp. Recent full-leather. Very Good. First Edition. Wing C6510. In addition to the name of Robert Couch on the title page, there is also the name of Chr. Pack [Christopher Packe]: "Now Published With Divers Useful Addititons (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack, Operator in Chymistry." Written while Robert Couch was "Sometimes Practitioner in Physick and Chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England," this is the first medical book composed in the British colonies. In 1663 Couch emigrated from England. Upon arrival in Boston he established himself as a physician and surgeon and spent most of his remaining life in Boston, with the exception of two years (1667-1669) in Portsmouth (New Hampshire), and a period in the late 1670s when he resided in Virginia and where he died prior to 1680. His manuscript was acquired by Francis Willis of Ware River, Virginia, who sent it to the London chemist Christopher Pack, who arranged for its publication with his own additions, and with a dedication of the work to Willis. Couch's book was not published in the colonies, but his manuscript was composed in the colonies, and then published posthumously in England. There are very few 17th century American medical publications. Those published in the colonies include the following. Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, records three: (1) Thomas Vincent's 31-page pamphlet on the London fire and plague (Cambridge 1668; Austin 1977); (2) Thomas Thacher's broadside on small pox (Boston 1678; Austin 1881); and (3) John Oliver's 129-page book for pregnant women (Boston 1694; Austin 1433). Guerra, American Medical Bibliography [a-1 through a-12], records two printings of Vincent's pamphlet (1667, 1668); Thacher's broadside; two variant printings of a religious pamphlet by Allen James (1679); four works by Cotton Mather (1689, 1692, 1696, 1698); Oliver's book; and two printings of legislation in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay relating to health matters (1694, 1699). New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I, p. 601. OCLC locates copies of Couch's book in these US libraries: American Antiquarian Society, Harvard, Huntington Library, National Library of Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine, Virginia. In the UK, there are copies in Aberdeen, British Library, Sion College, Wellcome Library. Garrison-Morton (online) 9698.