Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science with Other Addresses and Essays by Holmes, Oliver Wendell - 1861

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861, First Edition, 8vo., 406 pages. Book bound in a brown blind stamped cloth, lettering in gilt on spine. Faded samp staining to title page and a few pages of Preface, else book very good.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 406, [2] (ads), 16 (ads); original purple blind-tooled "BD" cloth (this binding variant not noted in BAL), brown glazed endpapers; spine and edges faded to tan, contemporary pencil inscription on front free endpaper, else a very good, sound copy. BAL 8803: "With the exception of the 'Preface,' 'Some More Recent Views of Homoeopathy' and 'Mechanism of Vital Actions,' all the material in this book had prior separate publication.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Brown pebbled cloth. ix, 406 pp. Bookplate of Dr. Edgar T. Peer. Spine coked, sunned. Ear to spine ends and corners. Interior age toned. Hinges cracked.

Boston:: Ticknor and Fields,, 1861.. First edition.. publisher's plum cloth.. Cloth sunned with fraying to the ends of the spine; tight and sound.. 8vo,.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 1st Ed . Blind-stamped Black Cloth. Good (+). 14 Cms x 19 Cms. xi+406+(2, pub.lists); t.p. has early blue oval stamp of The College of the City of New York, their large Library label to front pastedown overlaid by modern [private ex-lib. plate, main text clean, tight and otherwise unmakred butedge-tanning throughout; brown front end-paper quite fragile, detached but re-attached with transparent tear-repair tape, this however remains very visible and rather unsightly doen recto gutter, outer corner tips both chipped, rear end-paper much better but outer edge all very slightly chipped; original binding has been expertly relaid on black cloth, relaid spine chipped at both ends and now brown, original boards with publishers blind-stamped central logos lighter than underlying cloth rebind which shows through down gutters and front outer corner tips, all edges and back corners rubbed (rebind to spine region and front corners only). Includes 2 essays on homeopathy,… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original blind-embossed purple cloth, gilt spine. ix, 406pp, (2pp ads), 16pp ads. Very good. Mildest bit of edgewear, with spine slightly sunned. A tight and handsome first edition of Holmes' first important medical essays collection -- reprinting earlier essays (including the important "Puerperal Fever, as a Private Pestilence") and printing two new essays for the first time ("Some More Recent Views on Homeopathy" and "Mechanism of Vital Actions"). This attractive copy came from the library of ELMER A. SMITH, a noted Chicago attorney and Illinois Central Railroad solicitor general and noted medical collector who presented two papers about Osler, one titled "Sir William Osler as seen by a layman" -- and bears a bold gift inscription from him in blue ink on the front flyleaf: "To my friend / Andrew R Ferguson / with great / Expectations & affection / for you / Elmer A Smith / June 11, 1945." BAL 8803.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First Edition. Half Leather. Fine. Octavo. First issue, [i-iii]; [i-xii]; [1]-406; dedication page after copyright page and no ads, bound in half tan polished calf over marbled paper covered boards and matching endpapers, gilt lettering on red and brown morocco spine labels, remaining compartments fully gilt decorated, top edge gilt. From the library of authors J. Christian Bay and Alfred Paul Bay with both of their bookplates to front pastedown. Third blank (inserted leaf) with a presentation inscription M.Y. Bean/Compliments of/ ? A. N. Whiting. A fine, bright copy.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original brown pebbled cloth, decorated in blind. Bookplate of Alfred Sutro. An exquisite copy with a note from Sutro laid in. First edition, first issue. The first collection of Holmes' medical writings. Included are "Currents and counter-currents in medical science"; "Homeopathy, and its kindred delusions"; "Some more recent views on homeopathy"; "Puerperal fever as a private pestilence"; "Position and prospects of the medical student"; "Mechanism of vital actions"; and "Valedictory address to medical graduates of Harvard, March 10, 1858." All but two were previously issued as pamphlets. BAL 8803; C&T, p. 97; Cushing, H411; Osler, 2992.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861 Full dark green crushed morocco by Bradstreet's. Gilt triple rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt. . Twelvemo. A few light spots on front cover. Otherwise a fine, clean copy. With the author's bookplate, featuring a sea snail and the motto "Per ampliora ad altiora."