Bard Samuel 1742 1821 (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. NY: Columbia University Press, 1921. (56) pages. Frontispiece portrait. 8.5 x 5", cloth spine, paper boards, printed label. Cover rubbed & soiled, few damped edges, G.

Paged as [10], [2], i-ii, i-iii, [1], 1-18, 1-28. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 12.75cm. No dust jacket. Dark green cloth spine with minor scuffing at ends; light brown boards lightly bumped at fore-edge corners, some soiling to front board's paper title label. Deckle edges toned. Strong toning to front free endpaper recto and rear free endpaper verso; mild toning to title page; other light toning and a few foxing spots to other pages but, overall, interior leaves remain clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy. Features "A discourse upon the duties of a physician, delivered before the president and governors of King's college at the commencement held on the 16th day of May, 1769" and "A discourse on medical education delivered at the medical commencement of the College of physicians and surgeons on the 6th of April, 1819" with reproduction of the original title pages. With an Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler and a b/w frontispiece portrait with tissue guard sheet. The personal physician to George Washington, Samuel Bard (1742-1821) started the medical department at New York City's King's College, now Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York: Collins and Co., 1812. Second edition, enlarged (1812), originally published 1807. Important early American reference on midwifery, illustrated with 19 woodcuts. Full marbled calf with gilt-lettered tan spine label and gilt ruled spine, 17.5 cm tall, 255 pages. Covers rubbed at the extremities with small internal chip to the upper front cover, joints good, text block sound, pages age-toned and lightly foxed but clean with the exception of a transparent brown stain at the lower page corners that begins at page 107 and extends through the remainder of the book, affecting text only on a handful of pages, completely legible throughout, name in ink and repeated in pencil on the front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …