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1077. [Medicine and Science] [California State Homeopathic Medical Society] Transactions of the Fifteenth Annual Session of the California State Homeopathic Medical Society Held at San Francisco, Cal., May 13-14, 1891, Vol. II. [9], 10-181 pp. 9-1/4x5-3/4, dark brown cloth with gilt spine title and blind-stamped cover ornaments. San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn Company, 1892 . This volume provides a similar insight into the philosophy and practices of homeopathy in California and especially into the growing conflict within the ranks of homeopathic physicians created by scientific progress - as expressed in one of the papers as follows: "Who is a homeopathic physician; and from the answers received, we might well say, so many of them claim the title and only a minority carry out in their practice the rules as laid out in the
Organum [copy of the sixth American edition of Hahneman's Organum included with this item]. But Hahneman lived one hundred years ago, and though the old school have wonderfully progressed, do you wish Homeopathy to become a fossil and to carry out in the light of advancing science the antiquated notions of a theorizing dreamer?" Marginal notes in pencil and in ink by the original owner, minor wear to binding - otherwise in near-fine condition. (70/100).
1078. [Medicine and Science] Cecil, Russell L. A.B, M.D. A Text-Book of Medicine by American Authors. [2], iii-xxii, 1-1500 pp. Sparsely illustrated. 9-1/2x6-1/4, blue cloth with gilt spine title. First edition. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1929. The first edition of the book which has become the standard text of Internal Medicine through nineteen editions since 1929. From 1982 to 1992 (editions sixteen through nineteen) it was edited by Hawley E. Smith, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at UCSF during that time. Comparison of the first and last editions provides a dramatic picture of the progress in medicine in a mere 68 years. Binding worn at extremities, front hinge weak - otherwise in very good condition. (100/150).
1079. [Medicine and Science] [Coccidioidomycosis] The Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California. Thirtieth Annual Session. San Francisco, April 1900. [7], viii-xvii, [2], 2-619 pp. Frontispiece portrait and seven illustrations from photomicrographs. 9-1/4x5-3/4, green pebbled cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, floral endpapers. First edition. San Francisco: Medical Society of the State of California, 1900. This volume contains the landmark paper of W. Ophuls entitled A New Pathogenic Mould. (Formerly Described as a Protozoan: Coccidioides Immitis, Pyogenes) Preliminary Report.This was the first accurate description and classification of the agent [coccidioides immitis] of California's unique fungal disease [limited in geographic distribution in the United States to the the San Joaquin Valley, Southern California and the southwest]. The first case report was in South America in 1892 and the disease was thought to be due to a protozoan. This book was a very splendid gift to me from some of my colleagues and former students who knew of my interest in the disease from the several scientific papers I had written on the subject and numerous lectures they had endured. Included with this is a 1947 monograph on Fungal Diseases of the Lung by David Smith which includes a chapter on Coccidioidomycosis. The latter was a fine gift from the present dean of the UCSF-Fresno program, Dr. John Blossom. for the same reasons. Fine condition. (100/150).
1080. [Medicine and Science] [Circulation] Fishman, Alfred P. and Dickinson W. Richards. Circulation of the Blood: Men and Ideas. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-859 pp. Liberally illustrated. 10- 1/4x7, brown cloth with gilt spine title and cover ornaments. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964 . This is an encyclopedic history of the active pursuit and acquisition of knowledge of the circulatory system. Light staining of edges - otherwise in near-fine condition. (50/80). Sensational early medical broadside in California by the founder of the first medical school in California
1081. [Medicine and Science] Cooper, Elias Samuel. Broadside To the Medical Profession. 1 page [of 4]. 9-3/4x7-1/2, gray-wove paper folded to the above size. San Francisco: [Privately published], 1858. The printed broadside, was a means of communicating a political, religious, commercial or other kind of message to a large number of people in the days before radio, television and the internet. E. S. Cooper, "M.D." [in quotation marks because this degree was granted to him by St. Louis Medical College without his attendance, many years after he started the practice of medicine] arrived in San Francisco in 1855 from Peoria, Illinois where he had established "Dr. Cooper's Eye and Ear Infirmary and Orthopedic Hospital". Facing the fact that there already was a large number of physicians in San Francisco, Dr. Cooper, not being the shy, modest type, enlisted the help of the local newspapers in announcing his "remarkable successes" in surgery. This, of course, stimulated a fury of criticism from his professional colleagues to which this broadside is a response. Dr. Cooper, survived the criticism but succumbed to an unidentified neurological disease at the very young age of forty. Despite his neurological illness and his early death, however, he found time in his life to establish the first medical college in California [see next item] which was later to become part of Stanford University. Included with this item is an off-print of the 1937 presidential address to the Pacific Coast Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Ludwig A. Emge, M.D. on San Francisco's First Successful Caesarian Section Performed by Elias Samuel Cooper, Founder of California's First Medical School. This tells the dramatic story of the operation and the tumultous controversy surrounding it and Dr. Cooper. Both items in fine condition. (300/500).
1082. [Medicine and Science] Cooper, Elias Samuel. Broadside. Anatomical and Surgical Lectures. 1 page [of 4]. 10-1/2x8-1/2, blue-wove paper folded to the described size. San Francisco: [Privately published], 1856. This broadside announces Dr. Cooper's series of lectures in anatomy, and surgery and ophthalmic and orthopedic medicine and surgery which was to lead to his establishment of the Cooper Medical College. In this broadside Dr. Cooper offered all lectures and courses "FREE" for the ensuing year, giving as explanation his desire to extend his acquaintance with Medical men of adjacent states and countries and to maintain his own knowledge and skills at their peak. [This was also, of course, an ingenious way of advertising and suggesting his superiority without appearing to do so.] He made good use of the equable climate of San Francisco to reassure his potential students of the minimal discomfort that would be encountered in his anatomical dissections and demonstrations: "Dissections are conducted here almost free from effluvium the whole year, but particularly from April to October, when the salubrious breezes preserve bodies for any desirable length of time." This is the earliest announcement of any medical teaching or anatomical dissection in California and very rare. Fine condition. (300/500).
1083. [Medicine and Science] Cournand, Andre, M.D., Janet
S. Baldwin, M.D. and Aaron Himmelstein,
M.D. Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease. A Clinical and
Physiological Study in
Infants and Children. [6], vii-viii, 1-108 pp. Illustrated with numerous
diagrams, drawings, and illustrations
of x-rays and electrocardio-grams. 11x8, red cloth with spine and cover titles
printed in black. Second
printing.
New York: The Commonwealth Fund, [1950] .
Second printing of the first book on the then-new technique of cardiac
catheterization. As
illustrated by the title of this book, the technique was initially applied only
to children with
congenital heart disease, as it was in these conditions that surgeons first
developed their
methods of operating on the human heart to correct some of the otherwise fatal
or disabling
anomalies. Later, techniques were developed for operating on acquired heart
disease such as
rheumatic deformations of the heart valves and still later on heart conditions
due to coronary
artery disease. Cardiac catheterization techniques developed pari passu and
today are used most
frequently for the last-mentioned condition. In 1955-57 I spent time at Harbor
General Hospital in
Torrance, California learning and applying cardiac catheterization techniques,
then made a change
in venue to Fresno where my partner, Thomas Eliason, and I established the
first cardiac
catheterization unit in the Central Valley of California. Fine condition.
(50/80).
Flexner on Medical Education
1084. [Medicine and Science] Flexner, Abraham. Medical Education. A Comparative Study. [6], vii-ix, [5], 1-334 pp. 9-1/4x6, green cloth with gilt spine title and rules. First edition. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Dr. Flexner gave his first report on higher education in the United States in 1908 with publication of The American College: A Criticism. The Carnegie Foundation then commissioned him to do a similar study and analysis of the 155 medical schools in the United States and Canada. His critical report, published in 1910, became an American watershed for reform in medical education. It introduced standards for the first time which many of the schools couldn't meet. Many closed and others made sufficient improvements to meet them. Fifteen years later he published this cogent reanalysis of medical education in the United States in comparison with the European systems. Included with this item is a fine press print of Hints on Medical Education [12 pp.] taken from letters of John Coakley Lettsom written in 1791 [edition limited to 150 copies]. Fine condition. (60/90).
1085. [Medicine and Science] Hall, Thomas B., M.D. Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail. [8], 1-160, [3] pp. Five illustrations, one folded chart and two plans. 8-1/2x5-1/2, blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, endpaper maps. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. [Dayton]: Morningside Bookshop, 1971. The journal of an army physician, Thomas Bryan Lester, kept on the Santa Fe trail in the war with Mexico 1846-48. Fine condition. (70/100).
1086. [Medicine and Science] Harris, Henry, M.D. California's Medical Story. Introduction by Charles Singer,M.D. D. LITT. [5], vi-xi, [10] 2-421 pp. Twenty-four unpaginated plates with twenty- eight illustrations. 9-1/2x6-1/4, tan cloth and decorated boards with spine title printed in brown, edges untrimmed, printed dust jacket. First edition printed by the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. San Francisco: J. W. Stacey, Inc., 1932. The author was an associate clinical professor of medicine [UCSF] with an interest in history. This work has become the classic on medical history of California from the time of the indigenous natives to 1900. The value of this scholarly work has been complemented by the fine printing of the Grabhorn Press. Price neatly excised from the dust jacket - otherwise in fine condition. (100/150).
Early Johns Hopkins University Medical School lecture notes
1087. [Medicine and Science] Johns Hopkins University Medical School Lecture Notes. Three volumes: 1) Howell, William H. Physiology [c. 300] pp. 2) Welch, William H. Pathology. [c. 300] pp. 3. Williams, J. Whitridge. Obstetrics. [c. 300] pp. All three volumes 10-1/2x8, flexible polished leather with gilt cover titles, floral endpapers. [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1898-1902]. Bound copies of typed and duplicated [hectographed?] lecture notes presumably provided by the professor with marginal and interpolated notes in pencil or ink, presumably written by the student. The student in this case was Annie G. Lyle, a member of the first graduating class of Stanford University and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University Medical School [1902]. At the time, Johns Hopkins Medical School was unique in requiring a baccalaureate degree and proficiency in English, French and German for admission and in admitting women on an equal basis with men. The professor who provided the lecture notes in pathology was William Welch, one of the "big four" founders of the school. William H. Howells, Miss Lyles' professor of physiology and J. Whitridge Williams in obstetrics also became famed in their fields. Following graduation from Johns Hopkins, Annie Lyle studied and taught for several years at the Royal University of Vienna before returning to her native San Francisco to practice for the rest of her life. She became a community leader in child care and one of the founders of the Children's Court. Fine condition. (300/500).
1088. [Medicine and Science] Jones, J. Roy, M.D. History of the Medical Society of the State of California. [2], i-xiii, [1], 2-224 pp. Twelve illustrations from various sources. 9x6, green buckram with gilt spine and cover titles. First edition. Sacramento: Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement, 1964. More than just a dull recount of medical society organization, this is a vigorous story of medicine in California in the first half-century of United States governance, including public health, politics and the raucous internecine warfare of the profession, itself. Fine condition. (50/80).
1089. [Medicine and Science] Jones, J. Roy, M.D. Memories, Men and Medicine. A History of Medicine in Sacramento, California with Biographies of the Founders of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement and a Few Contemporaries. [6], vii-xvii, [3], 1-505 pp. Numerous illustrations from various sources. 9-1/4x6, blue buckram with gilt spine titles and decorations. First edition. Sacramento: Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement, 1950 . Inscribed and signed by the author on front flyleaf. Fine condition. (60/100).
1090. [Medicine and Science] Lewis, Thomas., M.D., D. Sc., F.R.C.P. Clinical Disorders of the Heart Beat. [3], iv-xii, [1], 2-116 pp. Illustrated with numerous diagrams, drawings and figures. 8-1/4x5-1/2, green cloth with gilt cover title. Third edition. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1916. The third edition of the first book to be dedicated to disturbances in the rhythm of the heartbeat. The quick sell-out of the first two editions was a practical corroboration of the clinical significance of Sir Thomas Lewis's pioneering work in this field. A paragraph in his preface to the first edition [1911] is worth quoting: "The graphic study of heart affections is but one of many clinical and pathological subjects which has forged ahead of late years. While a medical man can ill afford to neglect the advance of a subject in which he practices, he may act in too vigorous pursuit of one branch of medical science, to the detriment of his knowledge in other directions. a universal and detailed knowledge of medical science as it exists to-day is no longer possible..." Book rebacked with portion of original spine laid on, minor wear of covers - otherwise in very good condition. (100/150).
1091. [Medicine and Science] Lewis, Thomas, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P. Clinical Electrocardiography. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-120 pp. Illustrated with 103 figures in the text. 8-1/2x5-1/2, green cloth with gilt spine title and blind-stamped cover title. First edition. London: Shaw & Sons, Printers and Publishers, 1913. This was the first textbook of clinical electrocardiography and it demonstrates that the initial clinical use of electrocardiography was for the diagnosis of disturbances of cardiac rhythm. Only one of the ten chapters deals with any other uses of the electrocardiogram, such as the diagnosis of ventricular and atrial hypertrophy. There was no description of one of the major uses of the EKG today: the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and infaction [Dr. Herrick wrote the first paper describing the clinical syndrome of myocardial infaction in the United States in 1912 - the year that this book was written]. Book recased with original cloth laid on - otherwise in good condition. (100/150).
1092. [Medicine and Science] The New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences. Vol. XIII [new series]. Purple, Samuel S., M.D. and Stephen Smith, M.D. [Editors] [3], 10-466 pp. Illustrated with several figures and numerous tables in the text. 8-1/2x5-1/4, leather and marbled boards. New York: Purple and Smith, 1854. The lead article in this volume is a 35 page paper entitled: "Review of the Climate and Diseases of Certain Portions of the State of California" in which the author wisely concludes: "the actual pathologic or therapeutic influences of the climate, it is difficult to determine in a state of society so constantly changing; where exposure to its influence is so seldom permanent, or where, as yet, at least it has been of so short duration. Time and the revolutions which keep pace with it, a more settled state of society, the results of observations extended through a long series of years, and having reference to the permanent population will alone determine a subject of so much interest." Many other interesting papers found in this volume. Leather worn, scuffed, joints cracking - otherwise in very good condition. (100/150).
1093. [Medicine and Science] Osler, William, M.D. Aequanimitas with Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-451 pp. 8x5-1/4, green cloth with gilt spine title. Third edition. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1932. The first edition of this medical classic was published in 1904 and the second in 1906. Osler died in 1919 at the age of seventy. Front blank flyleaf missing - otherwise in near-fine condition. (50/80). An early issue of the first scientific periodical with report of one of the earliest experiments on blood transfusion
1094. [Medicine and Science] Philosophical Transactions. Numb. 42. pp. 837-852. One folded plate with five figures. 8-3/4x6-1/4, unbound, laid in clear plastic protector. [London: Royal Society] Monday, December 14, 1668. The Royal Society for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge was the first scientific society to be established in Great Britain and one of the earliest in Europe. It was founded in 1660 and its journal Philosophical Transactions was initiated in 1665. This issue, the 42nd since inception, contains several abstracts of works published elsewhere including: 1) a major Italian treatise on optics, and methods of making lenses for various purposes, 2) successful Italian experiments of blood transfusion in animals, 3) report of an Italian microscope more powerful than any developed to that date 4) verbatim reprint [in Latin] of a 1658 Italian paper on the anatomy of the testis with illustrations, 5) Robert Boyle's new book A Continuation of New Experiments Physico- chemical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and their Effects published by Oxford and 6) a book by W. Sympson on a scientific analysis of the health benefits of the waters of a famous spa in Yorkshire and other spas in which he debunked most of the claims. A splendid sample of the burgeoning science of the Renaissance in Europe. Fine condition. (300/500).
1095. [Medicine and Science] [Poliomyelitis] Pohl, John F., M.D. and Sister Elizabeth Kenny. The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment. [3], 4-366 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. 9x6, red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. First edition. Minneapolis, Saint Paul: Bruce Publishing Company, 1943 . The classic treatise on the controversial concepts of Sister Kenny on the pathogenesis and treatment of poliomyelitis. Despite the controversy about her concepts, her methods of treatment were widely used until virtually made obsolete by the advent of the Salk and Sabin vaccines in 1955 and 1960 respectively. Fine condition. (50/80).
1096. [Medicine and Science] [San Francisco Medical Society] Read, J. Marion and Mary E. Mathes. History of the San Francisco Medical Society, Volume I 1850 to 1900. [1], ii-ix, [1], 1-190 pp. Illustrated with numerous portraits, facsimiles and photographs. 11x8, green buckram with gilt spine title. First edition. San Francisco: San Francisco Medical Society, 1958. Fine condition. (50/80).
Early gastroscopy text signed by the "father of gastroscopy"
1097. [Medicine and Science] Schindler, Rudolf, M.D. Gastroscopy, the Endoscopic Study of Gastric Pathology. [3], vii-xix, [1], 1-433 pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white figures and an atlas of ten plates with 120 color illustrations of gastric pathology as viewed through the gastroscope. 9-1/2x6-3/4, black cloth with gilt spine and cover titles and ornaments, printed dust jacket. Second edition printed by the University of Chicago Press. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1950]. Signed by Rudolf Schindler on the half-title. Schindler was the "father" of gastroscopy and the instrument that he designed was known as the Schindler gastroscope. It was "semirigid" meaning that the upper half was constructed of rigid metal and the lower half was a "semiflexible" rubber tube filled with prisms and lenses that caused the image to be focused onto the eyepiece at the operator's end despite the flexing at the other end. One of these instruments is mounted on the wall in the GI division at UMC in Fresno as a historical relic, as it has been completely replaced by the fully flexible fibreoptic gastroscopes of today. During my residency in 1949-1952 I was trained to use the Schindler scope but the procedure was not very popular due to two serious flaws: 1) the procedure was very uncomfortable for the patient and 2) one could not visualize the duodenum [the very first part of the small intestine] where the major pathology existed a considerable share of the time. Both of these problems were solved with the fibreoptic scope and it has now become the major visualization procedure for diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal pathology. Fine condition. (70/100).
1098. [Medicine and Science] Southern California Practitioner Vol.I, Nos. 3-11. Nine monthly issues from March 1886 to November 1886. pp. 73-472. 9x5-3/4, printed wrappers. Los Angeles: Southern California Practitioner, 1886. This comprises nine of the first twelve issues of the first medical periodical to be published in Southern California. The stimulus for this journal came from the founding of the new medical school in Los Angeles under the auspices of the University of Southern California. The three editors of the journal were all professors at the College of Medicine at USC. Many interesting articles appeared in these nine issues including the first use (?) of atropine as a preanesthetic medication, historic use of oxygen for various respiratory conditions, removal of a part of the skull and a portion of the brain in a case of head trauma with eventual recovery and, of course, the threat posed to the public health by the large numbers of "unsanitary Chinaman" among many other subjects. Most issues in near-fine to fine condition. (200/300).
1099.[Medicine and Science] Still, George Frederic, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. Common Disorders and Diseases of Childhood. [9], x-xvi, [1], 2-845 pp. Numerous illustrations from various sources. 8-1/4x5-1/2, red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Third edition. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1915 . A pediatric classic. Minor wear and soiling of covers, both hinges weak - otherwise in good condition. (60/90).
1100. [Medicine and Science] Thrasher, Marion, M.D.
Long Life in California. [10], 11-130,
vii-x pp. Eight photographic illustrations from unidentified sources. 7x5, red
cloth with gilt cover title and
blind-stamped decoration. First edition.
Chicago: M. A. Donahue & Company, no date [circa 1915].
Signed and dated presentation inscription by the author [Feb. 3, 1916] on the
front blank flyleaf.
Broadside with quotations about the book from the San Francisco Chronicle, Los
Angeles Times,
Woodrow Wilson and Wm. Howard Taft tipped to front pastedown. Interesting
treatise on
longevity in which the author [graduate of UCSF in 1890] claims greater
longevity for Californians
[without any solid statistical proof] which he attributes to better sanitation,
a superior climate,
better diet, and wholesome outdoor living. Although the book is short on
scholarship, [it was
written for the layman] it contains some sanguine observations which are still
true today, such as
the fact that our longevity is more related to public health measures and our
life style than the
medical care that we receive - which is why many other countries that have less
personal
medical care have as good or better statistics with regard to longevity.
Environmentalists will be
fascinated by Dr. Thrasher's predictions about the health benefits of the
automobile as follows:
"When the automobile usurps the horse on the streets of our cities we will see
many diseases
disappear...The gradual elimination of the horse will tend not only to provide
cleaner air, but also
reduce the dangers from flies. It is in horse manure that the common house-fly
(typhoid fly)
chiefly breeds". Dr. Thrasher was seventy-four years old when he signed this
book. He lived to
the age of eighty-four. Moderate water-staining of covers otherwise in good
condition. (100/150).
Medications in use 140 years ago with description
of the legitimate use of cannabis for relief
of suffering in morbid [terminal] states
1101. [Medicine and Science] [United States Dispensatory] Wood, George B. and Franklin Bache. The Dispensatory of the United States of America. [3], iv-xi, [1], 1-1,583 pp. 9x5-1/2, full polished calf with gilt-stamped morocco spine labels. Eleventh edition. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1858. This Dispensatory is divided into two parts: 1) a description of all the pharmacological agents in use at the time: listed alphabetically from absinthium to zingiber and 2) instructions on the methods of preparation. It is a graphic reminder that pharmacists at one time did more than count pills. In fact, even in my early professional days, some preparations were still compounded by pharmacists and as medical students we were required to learn the techniques in our pharmacology course [well - that was 52 years ago]. On the materia medica side it is difficult to find many agents that are still in use today except for digitalis, ergot, iron, various laxative preparations, and cannabis. In view of the recent intense controversy over the legitimate medicinal use of marijuana, it is interesting to read the description in this official 1858 Dispensatory [under extractum cannabis]: "Cannabis sativa is a native of the Caucasus, Persia, and the hilly regions of the north of India. It is cultivated in many parts of Europe, and Asia and largely in our Western States...In Hindostan, Persia and other parts of the East, hemp has long been employed as an intoxicating agent...Extract of hemp is a powerful narcotic causing exhilaration, intoxication, delerious hallucinations, and, in its subsequent action drowsiness and stupor...In morbid states of the system, it has been found to produce sleep, to allay spasm, to compose nervous inquietude [tranquilize] and to relieve pain. In these respects it resembles opium; but it differs from that narcotic in not diminishing the appetite, checking the secretions or constipating the bowels." Leather binding modestly scuffed - otherwise in very good condition. (100/150).
1102. [Medicine and Science] Voorsanger, William C. Medical Memoirs. The Reminiscences of William C. Voorsanger, Pioneer Specialist in the Treatment of Chest Diseases. [8], 1-71 pp. 7x10- 1/4, green cloth with gilt spine title, fore-edges untrimmed, title page in two colors. Limited edition of 500 copies designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. San Francisco: Privately published, 1965. In the time of Dr. Voorsanger's medical career [1899-1960], specialization in chest disease meant specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, which, until recently, was always among the top two or three causes of death in the world. Dr. Voorsanger's career spanned from the time when no treatment was truly effective to the time when tuberculosis was consistently cured with combinations of antibacterial medications. He was a true California doctor: he graduated from Cooper Medical College in San Francisco in 1899 before it was incorporated into part of Stanford University and practiced all his life in San Francisco. Like many physicians who wanted to specialize in those days, he went to New York for his internship and to Germany for special education and experience. His memoirs were written at the age of ninety and make interesting reading today; their attractivenenss is enhanced by the fine printing of Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Fine condition. (80/120).
1103. [Medicine and Science] [Western Physicians and Nurses] Official Register and Directory of Physicians and Surgeons in the State of California to Which Is Added a Directory of Physicians and Surgeons of Oregon and Washington and a Directory of California State Nurses' Association. [1], 1-374, [1] pp. Numerous illustrations in advertisements. 9x5-3/4, green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Seventeenth edition. San Francisco: Medical Society of the State of California, 1905. Numerous advertisements for large hospitals and sanitoria throughout the state with photographic illustrations provide dramatic evidence of the rapid development of California. Fine condition. (80/120).
1104. [Miscellaneous] [Commodore Perry Expedition] Hawks, Francis L., D.D., LL.D. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States. Compiled from the Original Notes and Journals of Commodore Perry and His Officers, at His Request and under His Supervision. Three volumes: [3], iv-xvii, [4], 4-537; [11], 4-414, [21],iv-xi, [2]; [3], iv-xliii, [2], 2-705 pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white, tinted and hand-colored lithographs, folded maps, 352 wood-engraved charts of the night skies, drawings in the text, and a fourteen page facsimile of the treaty with Japan in Japanese calligraphy. 11-1/2x9, unmatched bindings: Vol. 1 polished calf with gilt-stamped morocco spine labels; Vol. 2 brown cloth with printed spine title and elaborate blind-stamped cover decorations; Vol. 3 blue-green cloth with blind-stamped spine titles and cover decoration. Washington: A. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1856. The lithographs have to be seen to be appreciated. Several lithographers were responsible for the plates: Sarony, P.S. Duval, Sinclair and Hitchcock. Included with this set is an unbound plate that was initially bound into a few copies and then banned from the remainder due to public indignation at the nude figures in the scene. The controversy resulted from a classic difference in cultures. The scene, drawn by the artist, was the inside of a public bath house in Japan where males, females and children had bathed together in the nude for centuries without concern. The Japanese are compulsively clean and very practical. Until recently very few could afford private facilities for bathing. The solution was the public bath house. Even as late as 1953-54 when my wife and I lived in Japan, the public bath was still very much a part of the Japanese culture. In the summer the streets of the cities and villages would be alive in the evening with men women and children in robes, carrying towels enroute to or from the bath. This was always occasion for much social exchange in the streets and for sales in the small shops and stands along the way. Twenty years later, when we returned for a visit, the public baths were closed and in the evening the streets were empty of people, shops shut and in place of the friendly babble of human voices in the warm summer air there was the roar of speeding cars and the banal sound of television emanating from the homes. Also included with this item is a modern reproduction [made about 25 years ago] of an old wood block print [probably from the early 19th century] depicting a bathing scene in a public bath. Although many collector's disdain mixed bindings in a set of books such as this, it is of historic value in documenting the variety of bindings in which the book was offered to the public. Volume 2 and 3 have been rebacked with original cloth laid on, binding of volume 1 lightly scuffed - otherwise in very-good to near-fine condition. (1500/2500).
1105. [Miscellaneous] [Commodore Perry Expedition] Perry, Commodore Matthew C. The Japan Expedition 1852-1854. The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. Pineau, Roger [Editor]. Introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison. [6], vii-xix, [3], 3-241 pp. Numerous illustrations in color and black and white from various sources. 11x8-1/2, blue cloth with silver spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968. The first edition of the first publication of the journal kept by Commodore Perry on the 1852- 1854 Expedition to Japan and the China Sea. Most of the illustrations were made from paintings and drawings found in Perry's journal [made by the expedition artists]. Dust jacket slightly soiled and chipped, previous owner's stamp on half-title, title and dedication page, and a mysterious erosion of the fore-edge of the rear flyleaf - otherwise in near-fine condition. (100/150).
1106. [Miscellaneous] St. Elsewhere Script titled "Bye George" Part III, Episode #15 [4], 58 pp. 11x8-1/2, loose-leaf script with stiff printed covers secured by brass brads. No place: MTM Enterprises, 1984. The front cover has been signed by the majority of the regular cast of St. Elsewhere including Norman Lloyd, Denzel Washington, Ed Flanders, Stephen Furst, William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., Mark Harmon, Eric Laneuville, Howie Mandel, David Morse, Christina Pickles, Cynthia Sikes and others. Included with this item are 1) a group photograph of the cast [with photographed signatures] 2) an announcement of the UCSF-Fresno Foundation fund-raising event with members of the cast of St. Elsewhere where this script was originally offered at auction and 3) an article clipped from People magazine [3-20-95] about the death by suicide of Ed Flanders. All in fine condition. (300/500).
1107. [Photograph] Adams, Ansel. Print.
University of California, Berkeley. Signed
Ansel Adams l/r on the mount. Gelatin silver print. 10-3/4x13-1/2,
mounted on 14x18
archival board.
Signed by Ansel Adams on the mount with studio stamp and title on the reverse.
Fine condition. (2000/3000).
1108. [Photograph] Aldrich, Philip.
Claim Paper, Central Nevada. Gelatin silver print. 13-
1/2x10-1/2", mounted on 22x18-1/2 archival board and matted.
Signed by Philp Aldrich on the mount below the photograph with printed label on
the back. Fine
condition. (300/400).
1109. [Photograph] Aldrich, Philip.
Deserted Ranch, Mountain Valley, Nevada. Gelatin silver
print. 9-1/2x13 12", mounted on 18x21-1/2" archival board and matted.
Signed by Philip Aldrich on the mount below the photograph with printed label
on the back. Fine
condition. (300/400).
1110. [Photograph] Aldrich, Philip.
Desert Floor, Death Valley, California. Gelatin silver
print. 10-1/2x13-1/4", mounted on 19x21-1/2" archival board, matted, framed and
glazed.
Signed by Philip Aldrich on the mount below the photograph with printed label
on the back. Fine
condition. (300/400).
1111. [Photograph] Aldrich, Philip.
Dixie Valley Underwater, Dixie Valley, Nevada. Gelatin
silver print. 10-1/2x13-1/4", mounted on 19x21-1/2" archival board, matted,
framed and glazed.
Signed by Philip Aldrich on the mount below the photograph with printed label
on the back. Fine
condition. (300/400).
1112. [Photograph] Aldrich, Philip.
Dooby's Tree, Gerlach Nevada. Gelatin silver print. 13-
1/2x10-1/4", mounted on 22x18 archival board and matted.
Signed by Philip Aldrich on the mount below the photograph with printed label
on the back. Fine
condition. (300/400).
1113. [Photograph] Harmston, Gordon.
Big Sur Mountains. Cibachrome print. 15-3/4x20"
mounted on board and hinge matted.
Fine condition. (100/150).
1114. [Photograph] Harmston, Gordon.
Evening Shadows, Cayucas Pier. Cibachrome print.
15-3/4x20" mounted on board and hinge matted.
Fine condition. (100/150).
1115. [Photograph] Larson, Roger K. Canyon Time
Lines. Color print. Signed l/r
Roger
Larson 14x20" corner mounted on board, hinge-matted, glazed and framed.
Fine condition. (100/150).
1116. [Photograph] Larson, Roger K.
Salinas Valley Hills, Spring. Color print. Signed l/r
Roger Larson 14x20" corner mounted on board, hinge-matted, glazed
and framed.
Fine condition. (100/150).
Philip Aldrich
Philip Aldrich is a fine physician in Carson City who
specializes in
internal medicine. I know he is a fine physician because he received his
specialty
training in the UCSF-Fresno program when I was chief. Phil had a budding
interest in
photography then which was nurtured by his contact with Ansel Adams' son,
Michael
[also training in internal medicine in the UCSF-Fresno program], and polished
by later
study under such masters of photography as Bruce Barnbaum and John Sexton. He
has
had several one-man shows in Carson City. Philip combines the artistry and
realism of
photography to produce striking images of the rural west.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Few outside of the staff and alumni of Stanford University
are aware
that the original name of the school was Leland Stanford Jr. University. The
story
behind that name is a poignant one. It begins logically with Leland Stanford
and his
son, Leland Stanford, Jr., an only child who was born a year before his father's
financial success was secured with the driving of the golden spike uniting the
transcontinental railroad in Ogden, Utah and eighteen years after his father's
union in
marriage to his mother, Jane Lathrop. Leland Junior was a handsome and
precocious
child who, as might be expected, was lavishly indulged by his wealthy and doting
parents. At the age of fifteen, while on a lengthy trip to Europe with his
parents, he
became seriously ill and, just when recovery seemed to be assured, he died. The
parent's lives were devastated and Leland Sr. quickly made a decision to honor
the
memory of their son by establishing a major University in California in his
honor. The
University was officially founded in 1885, a year after Leland Junior's death
and the
first class was admitted in 1891. Below you will find some choice items related
to
Leland Stanford and Stanford University.
1117. [Stanford and Leland Stanford, Jr. University] Stanford, Leland. Autographed Letter, Signed. [A.L.S.] 1 page with cover. 8-1/4x5-1/2, laid in clear plastic protector. Holograph letter of Leland Stanford written on his Palo Alto/Menlo Park stationery in 1891 at age 67 - two years before his death and during his service as U. S. Senator from California. The letter is addressed to Mr. C. S. Haley in Newark , Alameda County, California as follows: "Yours of 18th inst. received. The two petitions of your town which you left with my secretary, I forwarded to Mr. McKenna, Member of Congress from your district with a letter explaining the facts. I will now send him your letter and he will probably communicate with you. Yours truly, Leland Stanford." Fine condition. (400/700).
1118. [Stanford and Leland Stanford, Jr. University] [Biography] Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of the Life of Leland Stanford: A Character Study. [2], iii-vii, [1], 1-235 pp. Illustrated with five inserted portraits. 10x6-3/4, red cloth and leatherette with gilt spine title. Limited edition of 750 copies printed at the Lederer, Street & Zeuss Co. in Berkeley. Oakland: Biobooks, 1952. The first publication of Bancroft's biography of Leland Stanford, compiled in the 1890s [apparently unpublished by the former because of a falling-out with Stanford]. Fine condition. (70/100). Early biographical sketch of Leland Stanford with original photographic portrait by Bradley and Rulofson and scurrilous calumny against medical graduates of the University of California
1119. [Stanford and Leland Stanford, Jr. University] California Mail Bag [1], ii-viii, [1], ii-xxxi, [3], 5-128 pp. Illustrated with three original photographic plates mounted on stiff boards. 8-3/4x5-3/4, disbound and laid in folded ledger sheet with handwritten titles. [San Francisco: California Mail Bag, 1874]. In addition to the biographical sketch and portrait of Leland Stanford, this periodical also contains a biographical sketch and photographic portrait of James Lick, benefactor of the University of California [see that section] and a composite photographic plate with portraits of the trustees of the James Lick Trust Fund. This same volume has several other interesting items including: success of California wines at the London International Exhibition, a gold medal award to Bradley and Rulofson from the Philadelphia Photographer for a portrait they submitted, and excerpts from the "Town Crier" column of the San Francisco Newsletter, among many others. Stanford Medical School graduates will take special pleasure in the several derogatory paragraphs about the kind of "quacks" being turned out by the University of California Medical School. [One of those "quacks" made an appearance at the editor's office brandishing a pistol after he was castigated in the columns of the Mail Bag.] Disbound - otherwise in good condition. (200/300).
1120. [Stanford and Leland Stanford, Jr. University]
The Leland Stanford Jr. Museum. Origin
and Description. [23] pp. 9x5-3/4, tan wrappers with printed cover title. First
edition. [San Francisco: Privately published], 1886.
As the first memorial to their son, the Stanfords established this museum of
material collected by
Leland Stanford, Jr. on his lengthy trips to Europe with his parents. Fine
condition. (200/300).
Origin of the Campus of Stanford University
1121. [Stanford and Leland Stanford, Jr. University] Trotting and Thoroughbred Stock, the Property of Leland Stanford, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California. [4], 5-313 pp. 8-3/4x6, pictorial wrappers with printed cover title. Menlo Park: [Privately published], 1891. Stanford owned a large farm in Santa Clara County devoted to the breeding of race horses which then became the campus of Stanford University. This is a complete catalog of the products of the farm up to the time of the opening of the University. Minor wear to wrappers - otherwise in near-fine condition. (150/250).
1122. [Stanford and Leland Stanford, Jr. University] Muybridge, Eadweard. Animal Locomotion Plate 616 [Horse trotting] 1 sheet. 8-1/2x12-1/2 image on 18-1/2x23-1/2 sheet, corner mounted, hinge- matted and shrinkwrapped. [Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1888]. Eadweard Muybridge was a photographic genius. He first established a world reputation as a photographer with his giant photographs of Yosemite in 1868 [see items # 947 and 949]. In 1872 Leland Stanford hired Muybridge to prove his belief that all four of a trotting horse's hooves are off the ground at some point-of-time in the gait. With the financial backing of one of the wealthiest men in California, Muybridge was able to develop an elaborate sytem of multiple cameras with very fast shutter speeds [1/500 sec.] to take photographs in rapid sequence and prove that Stanford was correct. This series of photographs demonstrates this phenomenon in the sixth frame. Muybridge capitalized on the fame established by this project to develop a primitive motion picture device [that historically earned him the title of the "father of the motion picture"] and to spend three years at the University of Pennsylvania studying animal locomotion. This resulted in the publication from which this was taken. Crease of one corner, pinhole at top of sheet, few small spots on front and considerable soiling on the back - otherwise in very good condition. (200/300).