Griscom John M D (7 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Foxed throughout text, otherwise test is clean. Binding and hinges are sound. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Lone Tree Library, John Jayne. Harper's School Library 1858. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Butler (illustrator). Clean black cloth with gilt decorated spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with woodcuts. Very light foxing. Medical; B&W Illustrations; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 357 pages.

Redfield: 1854. 252p. Tinted plates. A tight copy lightly rubbed with some damp staining/ discoloration to the reverse board o/w good. 00703.

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. 16mo. 152, [4] pages. A small book measuring 6 1/8 inches tall by 4 3/4 inches wide. Hardcover bound in red quarter leather with dark brown cloth covered boards. The binding is worn and bumped. The leather spine shows heavy rubbing about the edges with some splitting for the top 2 1/2 inches of the rear hinge. Corners bumped and abraded. There is also some pale spotting (damp spots) on the boards. Inner hinges secure. Text is foxed. Early pencil notations on the front endpaper and flyleaf. INSCRIBED on the front pastedown: "J. Griscom Sr. / My own copy". (The "Sr." appears to have been written later); while also in pencil, it has a sharper point). There are other early pencil inscriptions on the endpapers. The first and second front flyleaves bear the signature of "S. D. Griscom" (which we believe is Susan D. Griscom, 1805-1857, the author's sister). On the front flyleaf is another pencil inscription which is mostly illegible but in part reads, "Steal not this book." and may be signed "S. J. Young". The "S. J. Young" signature is also on the rear pastedown, upside-down. Illustrated with a number of woodcut text engravings and drawings. The J. Griscom, Sr. inscription is likely the author's FATHER. Dr. John Griscom (1774-1852) was a doctor and a professor of Chemistry at Columbia University in New York. The Griscoms were a Quaker family and John Griscom was both a doctor and an evangelical Quaker who focused on reform. His efforts were towards the reform of penitentiaries and anti-poverty efforts in New York (while his son, the author of this book, was a reformer of New York sanitary conditions). The author is Dr. John Hoskins Griscom (1809-1874) was a physician at the New York Dispensary (1834) and at the College of Pharmacy in New York (1836-1838). He was at the New York Hospital (1843-1870) and was City Inspector and head of the New York Health Department in 1842. His main work was on sanitary conditions, especially among the poor. His 1845 report "The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York" identified problems and set the standard for hygiene and healthy living conditions throughout the United States. His work helped pass the Metropolitan Health Act of 1866 which established the Board of Health for New York City.

8vo. 252pp, [12]pp publisher's catalogue, 12 plates (11 coloured), text illustrations (some full-page). Original blindstamped brown cloth gilt, uncut. Rebacked with original spine laid down, browning and spotting throughout. Ex-Guilles-Alles Library, Guernsay with usual evidence including label to front board.

First Edition. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 58pp. Rear wrapper (blank) lacking; front wrapper with small losses at corners (away from printed area); text complete and fresh - a Very Good copy. The chief work by Griscom (1809-1874), a foundational figure in the public health movement in the U.S. This study, based on a similar work published a few years earlier by the British physician Edwin Chadwick (Report on The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, 1842), was the result of Griscom's careful correlation of housing and health data, collected while serving as City Inspector and head of the New York City Health Department. His recommendations that the working poor needed better housing, sanitation, and access to clean drinking water led to widespread reforms in New York and other East Coast metropolises.