Medicine from Duck Cottage Books

London: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1964. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 207 8vo. Ex-library (Central Electricity Generating Board Central Library). In the series "Elsevier Monographs on Toxic Agents". Dark green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 112 pages, illsutrated from photographs and with diagrams, tables etc. Condition notes: Library treatments to prelims and title page, thereafter… Ler mais sobre este item

London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), 1931. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 940 4to. Sub-title: "or Health & Hygiene in England from Roman to Victorian Times". Dark blue bevelled cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, dark blue end papers, 234 pages, illustrations (most from engravings) as plates and in run of text, frontispiece (… Ler mais sobre este item

Lancaster, UK: Medical and Technical Publishing Co Ltd, 1973. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 543 8vo. Yellow cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, red dust jacket, 177 pages. Illustrated with tables, charts, line drawings and with a small number of half tone plates. Condition notes: Some bumping to the boards, a little wear to the dust… Ler mais sobre este item

Geneva: World Health Organisation, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 188 8vo. Public Health Papers number 26. Card covers, 137 pages. Chapters are: Nature of the problem, Special problems of method, Extent of the problem, Epidemiology, Control and Prevention, Next steps in prevention. Condition notes: A little wear to the covers.

Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 715 8vo. Related newspaper cutting taped in to front paste down. "From the library of Vivian Nutton" blind stamped to title page. Light brown cloth-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, 344 pages. In the Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Condition notes: Book and wrapper clean… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1956. 3rd. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 379 8vo. Pink dust jacket, black cloth-covered boards, silver titles to spine, 212 pages. The longest section of the book (pp 30-152) covers Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology. Substantial bibliography. Condition notes: Dust jacket soiled and worn, a little bumping to boards, age-toning to end papers,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Oxford UnIversity Press, 1939. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 752 8vo. Brown cloth-covered boards, black titles to spine and front board, 355 pages, illustrative tables and graphs. Chapters include Heredity and Environment, The Effects of Inadequate Nutrition, Sickness in Relation to Occupation, The Health of Women in Relation to Occupation. Condition notes: Front free end paper… Ler mais sobre este item

London: George Routledge & Son, 1921. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 481 8vo. Ex-library (University of Edinburgh Psychology Department). A summary of what was known at the time of writing about industrial fatigue and its implications for efficiency. Dark green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 264 pages; tables, graphs etc in run of text. Condition… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Adrien Delahaye et Emile Lecrosnier, 1881. First Edition. Hardback. Very good/No jacket. 1036 8vo. Marbled paper-covered boards, quarter leather with five raised bands, gilt titles to spine, marbled end papers, 511 pages. From the library of the Institut Pasteur. Condition notes: Rubbed around edges, spine rubbed at extremities, especially the top edge, library indications to title… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Staples Press, 1960. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 640 8vo. Ex-library. Related newspaper cuttings left laid in. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 516 pages. Condition notes: Library shelf mark to spine, library label remnants to front paste down, 'Withdrawn' stamp to front free end paper (H M Stationery Office), acquisition information to title… Ler mais sobre este item

London: William Heinemann Medical Books, 1972. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 726 8vo. Illustrated from photographs (including medical illustrations in colour), photomicrographs, diagrams etc. Chapters include one each on the pathology of silicosis, pneumoconiosis and asbestosis (including some mention of mesothelioma) as well as discussing topics such as radiological hazards, occupational dermatitis and hazards from… Ler mais sobre este item

London: HMSO, 1937. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 875 8vo. Medical Research Council Industrial Health Research Board Report No. 80. Compiled under the direction of the Committee on The Toxicity of Industrial Solvents. Ownership stamp of Albert E. Parkes, Analytical Chemist, 8-Feb 1938, to front free end paper. Paginated i-iii, then 396 pages. Red cloth-covered boards, with red… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Oxford University Press, 1952. First edition. Hardback. Good/No jacket. 734 8vo. Being the papers read at the conference convened by the Institute of Biology and the Atomic Scientists' Association, October 1950. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 235 pages, many Illustrations from photographs. Condition notes: Front board very blotchy (chemical damage?), age-toning to endpapers, previous owner's… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Academic Press, 1966. First edition. Hardback. Very good/Good. 572 8vo. Summarising the usage and hazards of thorium. Great cloth-covered boards, blue and black titles to front board, blue and black titles to spine, blue and white dustjacket, 222 pages, illustrated with diagrams and occasional photographs. Condition notes: The book is in excellent condition, slightly marred only… Ler mais sobre este item

London: National Institute of Industrial Psychology, 1971. Paperback. Very good/No jacket. 310 8vo. A shop floor study of the causes of 2000 accidents based on 42 months' continuous observation. Co-authors Mary Hale, Jean Martin, Martin Simon. Softcover, 189 pages. Condition notes: Ownership stamps (illegible, but I believe from a government office) and initials to front cover, otherwise a… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Staples Press, 1952. First edition. Hardback. Good/Fair. 896 8vo. Brown cloth-covered boards, grey dustjacket, decorative endpapers, 655 pages. Published in the early years of the British NHS, when "a solution is being sought to the problems raised by the introduction of sickness benefit services on a national scale". Condition notes: The book is sound and… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. 5th or later edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1628 8vo. Co-editors WR Lee, RI McCallum and R Murray. Donald Hunter died in 1978, and this sixth edition is the first edition to be published after his death, and is described by the publishers as "a new book. It has the same… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1863. 3rd edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 782 8vo. Third American edition based on the second London edition. With 117 illustrations. 444 pages (including a glossary) plus index. Publisher's advertisements to rear (32 pages). Blind stamped brown cloth covered boards, gilt titles to spine. Condition notes: Boards very rubbed, mottled and worn, titles… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Academic Press, 1966. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 855 8vo. Prelims to p xii, then 394 pp including author and subject indexes. Refrences to the end of each chapter. Condition notes: Dust jacket discoloured and worn, book clean, bright and unmarked.

London: HMSO, 1907. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio. An original printing of the Report but bound in brown cloth-covered boards (without its blue wrappers); containing also the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix of the second, 1908 Report. Protective deckled tinting to all page edges. The 1907 Report is paginated (after title page and one leaf… Ler mais sobre este item