Medicine

# 15509

Hospitals in Persia

Medical Mission Series. Philadelphia : The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, 1913. Duodecimo, self-wrappers, pp. [12], illustrations. A fine copy. History and guide to medical mission work in various cities across Persia, including views of hospitals in Tabriz and Urumia with a Kurdish Chief. No other copy recorded.

# 15238

SANGER, William W.

The history of prostitution : its extent, causes and effects throughout the world.

New York : The Medical Publishing Company, 1921. Octavo, publisher’s blind-blocked blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt (softened at head and tail), front pastedown with ex libris of American mystic, occultist, hypnotist, mind reader and clairvoyant Alexander McIvor Tyndall, pp 709, [1]; endpapers with offsetting, a near fine copy. A revised and enlarged edition of this landmark work, …

# 14988

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

Tempting cooking recipes

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1933]. Octavo, original wrappers (a few light marks), calendars for 1933 and 1934 inside upper wrapper, 16 pp, illustrated; a very good copy. Hoyle, 899. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains recipes.

# 14987

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

Cooking recipes you will like

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1938]. Octavo, original wrappers, lower wrapper with calendars for 1938 and the first half of 1939, 16 pp, illustrated; a near fine copy. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains recipes.

# 14984

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

Economical cooking recipes

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1926]. Octavo, original wrappers (upper wrapper with light foxing), calendar for 1927 on lower wrapper, 16 pp, illustrated; internally clean and sound. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains recipes. Copies are recorded in five Australian collections (State Library of New …

# 14983

W.H. COMSTOCK CO.

Useful cooking recipes

[Cover title]. Sydney : [W.H. Comstock Co.], [1928]. Octavo, original wrappers (upper wrapper with a few stains and edge tears), calendar for 1929 on lower wrapper, 16 pp, illustrated; internally clean and sound. Promotional publication for the company’s product, Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills, which also contains recipes. Copies are recorded in four Australian collections …

# 15217

McIVOR-TYNDALL, Alexander J.

[CHEIROGNOMY] Revelations of the hand. A scientific study of the shape and markings of the hand, as an index to character, disease and tendencies, with explanatory illustrations.

New York : G.A. Dahlgren, 1900. First edition. Square octavo, publisher’s illustrated red cloth boards, front free endpaper bearing a presentation inscription by the author, dated March 4 1901, pp 169 (including plates and line illustrations) followed by [15] leaves of full page plates showing the hands of various celebrities of the day; a marginal tear …

# 15212

ALPERT, Richard; COHEN, Sidney; SCHILLER, Lawrence

LSD

New York : New American Library, 1966. First edition. Quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers (rubbed, ownership label to front), pp 128; the often startling photographic illustrations by Lawrence Schiller constitute an extensive visual essay on the LSD experience; a good copy. “In the midst of a raging national controversy two authorities speak out on the dangers, merits, …

# 13986

VICTORIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRAILLE WRITERS

Eyes to the blind

Melbourne : Victorian Association of Braille Writers, [c. 1940]. Oblong duodecimo, pamphlet, die-cut, revealing an image of Louis Braille, pp [8], Braille alphabet insert; waterstained, staples rusted. Rare, unrecorded in Australian libraries. 

# 13789

NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910)

Florence Nightingale : autograph letter concerning a manuscript on the Aborigines of New South Wales

[London, October 1864]. Manuscript letter in the hand of Florence Nightingale, ink on single quarto sheet of wove paper with black mourning border, folded to form [4] sides 200 x 135 mm, written on two sides, headed London Oct. 5 / 64. and signed in full at the foot Florence Nightingale; the letter with short split …

# 12275

KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)

Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé

dans les ports et à la mer. Half title: Médecine nautique. A Paris : de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1824. Second edition. Octavo, bound in modern cloth backed marbled boards, spine with gilt ornament and leather title label lettered in gilt, pp 115, [1] engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator; mild foxing to the last few leaves, …

# 11844

VICTORIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND.

[MELBOURNE] Give light to their darkness

Melbourne : Exchange Press, [for Victorian Association for the Blind], n.d. [c.1950]. Folding leaflet, duodecimo, [8] pp, illustrated, in good condition.  A scarce informational leaflet about The Home for the Blind at 7 Mair Street, Brighton Beach. The final two pages comprise a form for donations.  Appears unrecorded in Australian collections. 

# 9960

FNLAYSON, J.C.

Life and journeyings in Central Australia

Melbourne : printed by Arbuckle, Waddell, for the author, 1925. First edition. Small octavo, original green wrappers with gold lettering, (some edge wear to lower wrapper), pp 76, photographic illustrations, a fine copy. Memoir of a nurse who spent two and a half years at Oodnadatta hospital between 1914 and 1916.

# 9689

[BARRY HAIR PRODUCTS]

Barry’s almanac 1915

[Australia] : Barry Hair Products, [1914]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with calendar for 1915-1916), 48 pp, includes black and white advertisements for cosmetic and medicinal products, plus household hints and recipes, a very good copy of an almanac produced for the Australian and New Zealand market.

# 6956

[FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE OF AUSTRALIA, VICTORIAN SECTION]

Background information on the Flying Doctor Service of Australia (unpublished)

Cover title. [Melbourne?] : [Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Victorian section], [circa 1950]. An unrecorded text, which appears to be a draft for a Flying Doctor Service of Australia fund raising leaflet. Quarto, roneo printed, 5 pp (staples rusted, but complete, with light horizontal fold), dating based on mention of statiistics for the year 1949, …

# 5599

WILLIAM CRAWFORD & SONS LTD.

[TRADE CATALOGUE] Crawford’s Christmas List 1926

Edinburgh : William Crawford & Sons Ltd., 1926. Quarto, card covers with pictorial onlay and gilt embossed lettering, original cord tie holding covers at upper left (but covers detached from staples), 24 pp, all colour illustrations of Crawford's biscuit products, loosely inserted printed price list, contents clean and sound. A most attractive trade catalogue.