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Published by D. Appleton and Company, 1912
Seller: BookOrders, Russell, IA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Eighth. "Eighth edition, largely re-written and thoroughly revised with the assistance of Thomas McCrae." Hinges are split and barely holding. The interior pages are slightly darkened with age, otherwise clean and tight. Cover is discolored and worn at corners. Top and bottom of spine are frayed. 1226 pages including index.
Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1892
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; large 8vo; 1079 pages. FIRST EDITION, in the second state (according to R.J. Wolfe). Half bount in dark leather with pebbled side-cloth. The leather is quite scuffed. Rubbed and drying around edges, flaking in some cases. Exposed boards at corners, and at cloth edges, which is also rubbed and fraying. Heavy shelfwear. Red speckled edges, yellowed. Cracked hinges. The pages are yellowed but still quite bright and clean. Several pages dog-eared. Missing some ads at rear, but included ads are dated September 1892. P/--.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Rare first printing of the second edition of Osler's magnum opus. Thick octavo, bound in contemporary leatherette. In very good condition. "During his first four years in Baltimore, Osler had relatively few duties. The routine work in the hospital being performed by his residents, he was free to devote more time to writing. The principal result was his Principles and Practice of Medicine, published to great acclaim in 1892. Dedicated to his early teachers, Johnson, Bovell, and Howard, it was one of the last single-authored textbooks to cover the whole of medicine. Although Osler later complained that effecting the revisions for subsequent editions was a millstone around his neck, it turned a national physician into an international figure. It was eventually translated into French, German, Spanish, and Chinese and went through eight editions during Osler's lifetime." (Dictionary of National Biography).
Published by D. Appeton and Company, New York, 1892
Seller: Yes Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, Second State. Green cloth. "Gorgias" spelled correctly. Both boards starting, hanging by the gauze, quite loose. Covers worn, with stain on spine. Paper on boards and FFEP's appear to be refurbished. Text block is clean and unmarked. 1079 pages plus promotional pages.
Published by D. Appleton, New York, 1892
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good. 24 cm; xvi, [2], 1079, [1 blank], ads [6], 8 pages. 19 charts, five figures in text, index, ads dated March 1892. In original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine. Rubbed, spine ends frayed, upper hinge cracked but holding. Ink marginalia on pages 1017-19.References: Garrison-Morton 2231; 100 Books Famous in Medicine, #82. According to Haskell Norman, curator of the exhibition "100 Books Famous in Medicine" held at the Grolier Club in 1995, Osler was "the most renowned physician of recent times." He calls this particular book "a scientific and literary masterpiece," that "became the standard textbook of medicine throughout much of the English-speaking world." First edition, second state, with "Gorgias" on verso of author's note.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1892
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, Second State. Misspelling of Gorgias on the quotation page has been corrected. Ads are dated March, 1892. Large 8vo, half bound with leather at spine and corners. Boards are pebbled cloth. Gilt text on the spine only. Leather is drying and flaking with chips missing. Spine is loose. Corners worn. Sepia photo of Osler, with his signature below, is laid in. Hinges cracked with webbing showing on the back hinge. Corners worn to board. All pages tight. Some underlining with a ruler in the section on cardiology.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1892
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. xvii, 1079, [6], 8 p. 25 cm. 19 charts, 5 b&w figures. Publisher's original brown pebbled cloth and yellow endpapers. Gold printing on spine. Corners bumped, some rubbing to extremities, small tears in spine ends, small dark spot on front board. Ink stamp and signature on front endpapers. Front free endpaper and following leaf have small tears and chips to edges. Ink signature at top of p. 1. A little thumbing. Osler's textbook was the best English language work on medicine of its time. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, Osler had a fine literary style and extensive knowledge of medical bibliography. This copy was in use at Memorial Hospital, St. Thomas, Ontario, built 1924. It belonged to Dr. Robert Kains (1849-1927 of that city. Golden & Roland 1378. Garrison-Morton 2231. First Edition, Second State. Corrected spelling "Gorgias" on p. vi. Second list of ads at rear dated March 1892.
Published by D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1892
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. SIGNED by Osler on Bookplate attached to the front paste down! Large format volume in green cloth. 1892 on the title page. One corner bumped and somewhat abraded. Some pencil notes to the end papers and occasionally through the text. Some tears to a few preliminary pages. Adverts at the rear followed by a section of adverts dated August, 1892. 'Gorgias' is in the corrected state. Either an early reprint in the original year of publication or a later printing. Scarce in any case, especially with a Signature attached! ; 0 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK, 1892
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
HARD BACK GREEN. Condition: VERY GOOD. FIRST ED. General wear, front hinge weak, text very firm and tight, pages yellowing, protective mylar jacket, "ex libris" bookplate on inside of front cover, penciling on front end paper, cover scuffed, gilt on spine, charts and graphs in text, first edition second issue, slight wrinkle to spine, unmarked text. 1892 (with the correct spelling "Gorgias" on p. [vi]). The AD "Medical and Hygeienic Works" is dated March 1892. This edition is First Edition, Second Issue. Index is 28 pages, 14 pages of ADS in rear. DATE PUBLISHED: 1892 EDITION: FIRST ED 1079.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1892
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original blind-ruled brown cloth, titles bright to spine, original canary yellow free front endpaper bears names of previous owners dated 1892,1913, and 1967. Publishers advertisements at rear dated "November 1891," not spring or summer 1892, as often found with second-state copies (though both the texts advertised on "The Diseases of Women" and on the "Science and Art of Midwifery" are, of course, authored by men.) Plato's "Gorgias" still misspelled "Georgias" to verso of sixth leaf, NOT yet corrected here. There are a few sparing pencil notes in the section on parasitical worms, pp. 1035-1039. Totals 1,079 pp. including index, followed by 14 pp. publishers ads. Reduced from $8,400.
Published by D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1892
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, first printing with first issue text "Georgias" misspelled on vi. First state rear ads dated November, 1891. Rebound in recent tan calf with label to spine, gilt lettering; white endpapers. Lacking prelims up to the title page. Contents Very Good+ and unmarked, small chips to top and bottom corner of title page. A rare example of the true first edition of Osler's very influential medical textbook, the best of its time. "One of the most influential textbooks of general medicine ever written. The chapters describe specific diseases by systems- an innovation now generally followed- and the work's elevated literary style, coupled with its vast store of medical knowledge, brought something new to the medical textbook genre. Writing at the end of a revolutionary period in medicine, Osler was able to fill a widely felt need by incorporating into his textbook the tremendous advances, particularly in microbiology, that had forever altered the face of medicine" (Hook and Norman, 1612). Garrison-Morton 2231; Golden & Roland 1375; Norman 2231; Osler 3543.
OSLER, William. The Principles and Practice of Medicine Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland, 1892. 1st UK ed. xvii,1079pp. Charts. Orig. cloth, housed in blue-morocco backed clamshell box. Cloth gently rubbed, light wear to foot of spine and lower corners, inner hinges starting, else very good. Garrison-Morton 2231; Golden & Roland 1375; Norman 2231; Grolier 82. Norman 1612: "One of the most influential textbooks of general medicine ever written." Preceded by the New York edition of the same year, this is apparently the same text setting with a cancelled title-page and different advertisements at the end. As with the first issue, the unfortunate spelling error of "Georgias" for "Gorgias" appears on the verso of the third leaf. "The timing of the textbook was almost perfect. Principles and Practice was at once a monument to the achievements of nineteenth-century scientific medicine and a gateway to the twentieth century. Its merits, apart from the up-to-date content, were its extreme clarity, Osler's straightforward style, and the sense he conveyed that medicine was anything but cut-and-dried." Michael Bliss, William Osler: A Life in Medicine, pp 185-186.