Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (44 results)

First American Edition. First American edition. xiv, 288, [1] pp. Black cloth, front lettered in red, spine in gilt. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear near foot, light wear. A philosophical whodunit in 19th century France, assembled and edited by postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault.

Seller Inventory # 140942751

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Dr. Thomas Noguchi on front free endpaper in ink. 253 pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip lettered in pale brown. Near Fine with remainder mark to bottom edge, subtle lean to spine, a few pages' bottom corners creased, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with two small chips and a tear to the bottom of the back panel, small dimple to spine panel. The medical examiner known as the "coroner to the stars" writes about the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Manson family victim Sharon Tate, singer Janis Joplin, Saturday Night Live star John Belushi and more.

Seller Inventory # 140941209

Notecard signed by French surgeon and biologist Dr. Alexis Carel inscribed "to a small [?] boy" in New York, dated June 5, 1926, mounted to cardboard underneath an article about him winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1912 with a photograph. Cardboard a little roughly cut, verso shows darkening from smoke, article foxed. Carel (1873-1944) was a pioneer of surgery for his techniques of transplanting tissues and whole organs.

Seller Inventory # 140941681

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by the author, warmly inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "6/99 For Steve, my teacher, with fond memories & unflagging admiration [signed] Robert Proctor." From the library of Gould. x, 380 pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. First edition. Corners slightly tapped, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. A history of the Nazi state's campaign against cancer and cancer-causing products such as tobacco, and how this scientific activism dovetailed with the party's propaganda and antisemitic worldview. Uncommon signed.

Seller Inventory # 140939915

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Anthony Hallam and inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "To Steve With best wishes to a courageous friend and ardent hopes for full recovery [signed] Tony." x, 182 pp. Navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine original unprinted tissue dust jacket. A nice association between a British geologist, writer, and paleontologist and an American writer and biologist; they collaborated on a number of papers.

Seller Inventory # 140938867

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing to text, a few corner-creased pages. A very neat, clean copy. An American Presbyterian doctor's religious and professional advice to his fellow doctors, published anonymously. Rare.

Seller Inventory # 140938017

First edition. First edition. xxvi, 17-589pp. with illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth, ruled and stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, letter "Y" in "Anatomy" on spine rubbed off, former owner's name on paste down, light wear. A very bright, clean copy of a rare illustrated medical text.

Seller Inventory # 140946011

First American Edition. First US edition. xxiv, 175 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering on spine. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped jacket with spine panel darkened and edge-wear heaviest at head and tail. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. A rare double work of nonfiction by the Journey to the End of the Night author, an anti-communist rant (with Celine's peculiar politics of misanthropy and pacifism) and a dramatic biography of the first physician to wash his hands.

Seller Inventory # 160630007

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed by author to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould and signed. xv, 240 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed work by the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972.

Seller Inventory # 140938866

First edition. Complete in two volumes: text and plates. Ex-library copies, noncirculating, with perforation to title page of Vol. I and each one of the plates, bookplates, call numbers, etc. Vol. I rebound in green cloth, Vol. II cover (wraps?) laid onto green cloth, string-clasp, individual plates unbound. All 10 plates present. Contents of Vol. I toned, reading wear. Vol. II Fair, tidemark along top two inches of each plate and Vol. II title page, plates worn at edges. Very rare anatomical text with plates.

Seller Inventory # 140944984

Signed by Dr. Benjamin Spock on the front free endpaper, dated Oct. 1979. Fourth edition, fourth printing. Bound in publisher's photo-illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear, mostly unread, unmarked. A signed copy of Dr. Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, one of the best-selling books of the 20th century.

Seller Inventory # 140944530

Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First American Edition. x, 407, [1, Pathological Index] pp. Period half calf and marbled boards with newer morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to edges of boards, light foxing to endpapers and prelims, former owner's name written in pencil on blank page following ffep. Rarely found in presentable shape. A survey of medicine by an Irish physician most-often remembered for two works on the heart-- A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837) and The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854)-- as well as an early book on the use of the stethoscope. He was a firm believer in the unity of all the sciences within medicine, and was generally opposed to specialization.

Seller Inventory # 140937540

First Edition. First edition. xiv, [2], 493 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamping, spine label, black coated endpapers. Very Good+ with small tear at head, a little wear along title label, hinges cracked but holding. Contents bright. An ambitious book of amateur physiology, biology, psychology, and philosophy by the lover of novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), published the year before he died. His complex views on neurology, sophisticated and cutting-edge for their time, informed her fiction. He was insistent on a holistic view of the nervous system and disparaged the common 19th century trope of the individual neuron as telegraph, in a kind of Victorian parallel of the contemporary Orch OR hypothesis versus the computational theory of the mind debate. Scarce in the original cloth.

Seller Inventory # 140942304

Signed by Kary Mullis on the title page, inscribed to former owner. x, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt. Second printing of the first edition. Very Good+ with small coffee stain to top edge in Fine dust jacket, hint of shelf wear. The autobiography of the late Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, which has become very rare signed. He's best known as the inventor of the PCR test, which was front and center during the Covid pandemic. An iconoclast, his hobbies included surfing and taking hallucinogenic drugs.

Seller Inventory # 140945812

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Seventh printing of the first edition. Signed by Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley on the front pastedown. Thigpen has warmly inscribed and signed the front free endpaper dated June 1, 1995, "For Irving Victor, a close classmate in medical school. With feelings that do not readily lend themselves to words--I shall never forget your straight level look and the warmth of our last handclasp." Bound in cloth-affect blue and green binding lettered in silver. Near Fine with edge wear, light foxing to all edges. In a supplied Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. The authors' reprint of a famous case study of Eve White, a virtuous housewife with multiple personality disorder. This case study would go on to bring awareness to the psychological condition. Later adapted into the Academy Award winning film of the same name featuring Oscar-winner Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, and Lee J. Cobb. Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity, originally published in 1941, remains a cornerstone of clinical psychopathy.

Seller Inventory # 140946028

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alfred C. Kinsey on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt titles blocked in dark blue on the spine, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with fading to spine and light wear to cloth at extremities, hinge at title page slightly exposed and pages are toned. A nice copy of this monumental work, signed by the author.

Seller Inventory # 140943100

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint. Signed and inscribed "Don't forget us" on the title page by Dr. Gisella Perl and dated 1980. In publisher's original blue leatherette binding with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, light wear to extremities and some indentations to covers. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and edge wear, tear to the unusually narrow rear flap.

Seller Inventory # 140945043

First Edition. First edition. 39 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with slightly soiled and scuffed wraps, faint corner crease to front wrap, a few small reading smudges. Rare in commerce. The anonymously-written autopsy report of the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker (born in Siam, they inspired the phrase "Siamese twins") with two illustrations.

Seller Inventory # 140942039

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. xx, 850, 24 (ads) pp. Illustrated. Publisher's crimson cloth with black lettering to front board, gilt spine lettering. Very Good with small scratch to spine, faint stain to front board, pencil mark to rear board, foxing to edges, bookplate on paste down, brief note about book affixed to front free endpaper stating "I like the original edition best," a little foxing to prelims. Garrison & Morton, 3rd edition, 658: "Bayliss's book treats of general physiology from the physical chemical point of view. For some years it remained the most important book of its kind, and to-day is still of great value for its historical information and its accurate bibliography." Uncommon as a first edition.

Seller Inventory # 140941775

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's origina dark blue cloth with titles lettered in gilt. Very Good or better, with toning to cloth at spine and edges, gilt rubbed completely at spine and partialyl to front cover, cloth lightly edge-worn. Pathfinders charts the history of Black nurses, written by one of the founders of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, who served as the organization's treasurer and then president. She advocated for the equality of Black nurses internationally.

Seller Inventory # 140942952

First Edition. First edition, first printing. vi, 128 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with spine a little sunned, spine lettering mostly rubbed-off, slight lean, hint of foxing to edges. Lacking dust jacket. Rare. British physician, later Buddhist monk Michael Dillon has been called "the first trans man," due largely to his being the first person to undergo a phalloplasty. He wrote this first book, a medical/psychological/philosophical work on sexuality and gender, without mentioning his own experiences. He argued with regards to transsexualism, "Where the mind cannot be made to fit the body, the body should be made to fit, approximately at any rate, to the mind.".

Seller Inventory # 140944449

First American edition. First American edition. 576, 32 pp. Bound in publisher's ornately-blindstamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+, dulled lettering, cloth a little worn and slightly frayed along edges, a few small scratches to spine, name written on front free endpaper, slight wave to textblock. Nice shape overall. A Victorian psychology text with many accounts of various mental illnesses such as hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), epilepsy, muteness, and brain damage written by the British psychiatrist best-known for his involvement with the Jack the Ripper case. Winslow claimed to have identified the serial killer as lodger G. Wentworth Smith, a theory he propounded for many years so vigorously that at one point Winslow himself was considered a suspect in the crime by police.

Seller Inventory # 140945807

Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition, from the thirteenth English edition, corrected. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spines. Very Good. Cloth faded and lightly worn at the spine ends. Pages heavily foxed, marginal tear to pp. 195 in Volume I, small rubber stamped numbers to rear free endpapers. An immensely popular book in the 17th century, Burton's work was part medical text, part literature and part in a class of its own.

Seller Inventory # 140941590

Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pebbled black cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at corners and spine ends. Slight crack started at gutter of front free endpaper. Owner names penciled and small owner label to preliminary sheets, browning to two pages from a laid in news clipping. A beautiful copy, uncommon in nice condition.

Seller Inventory # 140944662

First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. 140, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's pebbled brown cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, yellow coated endsheets. Near Fine, spine ends worn, former owner's name written on title page in pencil. A lovely copy. The main text by the founder of modern nursing.

Seller Inventory # 140945310

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Complete issue, pp. [409]-536. Bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, light corner creasing to several terminal leaves and light soiling to final page, Near Fine. Contains the paper "A Powerful R�ntgen Ray Tube with a Pure Electron Discharge" by William Coolidge on pp. [409]-430. The invention of the Coolidge tube is announced in this paper, which was the predecessor to all type of common x-ray tubes used today, and remains the single most important development in radiology technology.

Seller Inventory # 140940038

First edition. First edition. xii, 252 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine with a hint of toning to the spine cloth and shelf wear; bright and clean internally save for a name stamped on the title page; sturdy binding. Rare in commerce.Perhaps the standard World War I text on treating post-traumatic stress disorder, then called "shell shock." Those were different times. Yealland, a Canadian doctor working at the British National Hospital, basically believed that shell shock essentially didn't exist, or was merely a temporary condition that needed to be expelled by auto-suggestion, strong language, a spatula to the throat or, in the worst cases, electrical shocks directly to the patient's throat. His complete confidence in himself and his methods (touting an 100% success rate) inspired many at the time, but meant that history would not be kind to his legacy or the data he compiled.

Seller Inventory # 140944146

[4], 800, [22] pp. Bound in early sheep with edges dyed blue, woodcut printer's device on title-page. (12mo) (4.75" x 2.75"). Text in Latin and Greek. Covers well rubbed but sound; old monastic rubberstamp to title-page, else very good. String ties perished.Former owner's name in ink on paste down next to a few bookseller notes in pencil. A truly classic series of medical texts that informed centuries of medicine. Includes the Greek text of famous Greek physician Hippocrates' Aphorismi, with the Latin translations by Foes and Plancy. Hippocrates is well-known as the first physician to believe diseases had physical, natural causes rather than supernatural ones. Galen's commentaries are in Plancy's Latin translation. Claudious Galenus (131-201 AD), better known as Galen, was a Greek physician whose views on medicine would dominate Europe for over a thousand years. He lived in Rome for many years, and performed many vivisections of animals, wrote many works, and lectured extensively. He would also transmit Hippocratic medicine to modern times. In this work, Galen provides Hippocratic proverbs relating to health. This includes medical advice on disease prevention, and benefits of moderation in lifestyle.

Seller Inventory # 140945568

First edition. First edition. vi, [17]-290 pp. Bound in publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, floral endpapers. Fair with wear, loss to cloth along spine panel, spine glued down, amateurish repair to front hinge with glue and tape, some neat ink underlines throughout text. Scarce, no physical copies located in OCLC WorldCat, auction records, or trade. An important work in homeopathic medicine by the American doctor who has been called the field's forefather.

Seller Inventory # 140944427

Condition: Very Good+. First American edition. First American edition. (Follows the British, the same year. Morton 3rd edition 1409.) Copy of contemporary female physician Elmira Y. Howard with her signature at front and date of 1877, her numerous underlines and brackets throughout in pencil, which is easily erasable with patience if one wants to do that. xvi, 323 pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth stamped and ruled in blind with gilt spine lettering, dark brown endpapers. Very Good+ overall with wear at head and tail, occasional foxing to contents. A classic work of neuroscience, rare in such nice shape.

Seller Inventory # 140941120