Public Health and Medicine
A collection of books
£600
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
A Short Account of the Town's Hospital in Glasgow... Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1738. 8vo, [ESTC T175088]; Lettsom, John Coakley Medical Memoirs of the General Dispensary in London... London: Edward and Charles Dillly, 1774. 8vo, contemporary calf, stamp of Bedford General infirmary [ESTC T73255]; Blizard, William Suggestions for the Improvement of Hospitals. London: C. Dilly, 1796. 8vo, contemporary calf, presentation inscription and a few cancelled library stamps; Cleland, James A Description of the Manner of Improving the Green of Glasgow, of Raising Water... Glasgow: R. Chapman, 1813. First edition, 8vo, folding map, later half calf, engraved bookplate of James Adair; [Idem] Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the City of Glasgow. Glasgow: John Smith & Son, 1832. Second edition, folio, bookplate and presentation inscription from the author, original green cloth neatly rebacked; General Board of Health Papers Relating to the Sanitary State of the People of England... London: HMSO, 1858. Folio; Hodder, Edwin The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. London: Cassell & Company, 1886. 3 volumes, first edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Burdett, Henry C. Cottage Hospitals... London: The Scientific Press, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Scottish Board of Health A complete run of reports from 1920-1962, comprising: Annual Reports of the Scottish Board of Health. London/Edinburgh: HMSO, 1920-1929, volumes 1-10; [becoming] Annual Reports for the Department of Health for Scotland. Edinburgh: HMSO, 1930-1939, volumes 1-10; [followed by] 23 annual reports dated 1941-1962; all 8vo, original printed wrappers; and 7 others (60)