New York: Paul B. Hoeber Inc., (1937). 12mo. marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover label. x, 41+(1) pages. First edition thus. Spine cracked along the hinge, else a fine copy. Hand-set in Goudy Mediaeval type by Arthur and Edna Rushmore at their Golden Hind Press. Inspiration talk by this bibliophile. READ MORE about A WAY OF LIFE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 78181
(Mansfield Centre: Maurizio Martino, n.d. but 1998). small 4to. cloth. xi, 137, (3) pages followed by the plates. Reprint of the 1923 first edition that was published by the Bibliographical Society and the Oxford University Press. Illustrated Monographs No. XIX issued by the Society. Frontispiece portrait of Osler. Foreword by A.W. Pollard which is then followed by Osler's address. The text is followed by bibliographical descriptions of 214 important titles. Contains indexes by author, place..... READ MORE about INCUNABULA MEDICA, A STUDY OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED MEDICAL BOOKS, 1467-1480
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 53296
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1929. thick 4to. cloth. xxxvi, 786 pages. First edition. Front and rear hinges starting, rear outer hinge cracked through. Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing. With the private bookplate of Paul Jordan Smith on the front pastedown. Editor's preface by W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill and Archibald Malloch followed by an introduction by Osler describing his collecting habit. This is followed by the bibliographical descriptions of 7,787 items. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA OSLERIANA, A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE,...
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 37985
Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1969). thick 4to. cloth. xxxvi, 786 pages. Reprint of the first edition. A fine copy. Editor's preface by W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill and Archibald Malloch followed by an introduction by Osler describing his collecting habit. This is followed by the bibliographical descriptions of 7,787 items. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA OSLERIANA, A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE,...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 136382
