PUBLIC AND ENVIROMENTAL HEALTH]. -- [SHATTUCK, Lemuel (1793-1859)]. Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850 . Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1850. 4 o. Uncut. Text illustrations, lithographed maps, 2 folding. Original brown printed wrappers, cloth spine (worn). Provenance : Austin Flint (1812-1866), cardiologist (presentation inscription from the author on front wrapper: "Austin Flint, M.D. With the regards of Lemuel Shattuck the Author"); Library of the New York State Medical Association (stamp on title page). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST GENERAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRESENTED TO AN AMERICAN GOVERNING BODY. The report included 50 specific recommendations on subjects such as the establishment of state and local boards of health, the collection of health data, vaccination, medical training and research, slum clearance and town planning. Shattuck has been called "the Chadwick of America". Garrison-Morton 1609; Norman 1935. -- [CHADWICK]. RICHARDSON, Benjamin Ward (1828-1896). The Health of Nations. A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick. With a biographical dissertation . London: Longman & others, 1887. 2 volumes, 8 o. Original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance : The Greenock Library (presentation letter from B.W. Richardson on behalf of Edwin Chadwick tipped into rear pastedown of Vol. 1). FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. "Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England" (Garrison-Morton 1625); Norman 436. -- PLIMSOLL, Samuel (1824-1898). Our Seamen. An Appeal . London: Virtue & Co., 1873. 2 o. Photographic plates. Original blue cloth, embossed in black (front cover joints worn and splitting). FIRST EDITION. Plimsoll devoted his career to the reofrm of British mercantile shipping. He insisted on a compulsory load-line (the "Plimsoll line") to stop the widespread use of overloaded ships and the deaths this caused. As a result of this work, a royal commission was established, and a few years later, in 1876, the Merchant Shipping Act was passed to enforce the measures Plimsoll recommended. Norman 1718. -- MARSH, George Perkins (1801-1882). Man and Nature; or, physical geography as modified by human action . New York: Charles Scribner, 1864. 8 o. (Occasional foxing). Black blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance : Fletcher Town Library (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "A comprehensive scientific account of man's enormous and often destructive impact on the natural world. Marsh warned of the reckless use of land then endemic in the United States" (Garrison-Morton 145.59); Norman 1443. -- GIFT, George Washington (b. 1833). Something about California: Being a description of its climate, health, wealth and resources ... Marin County: Its industries, roads, appearance, health and population ... the Sanatarium of San Rafael ... . San Rafael: The San Rafael Herald, 1875. 8 o. Original orange printed wrappers (front cover nearly detached). FIRST EDITION. Norman 904. -- ANDERSON, C.L. Santa Cruz for Homes. The climate, botany, geology, and health of Santa Cruz and vicinity . San Francisco: Wallace Elliott, 1879. 2 o. Lithographed map. Original blue printed wrappers (detached, worn). Provenance : James Ewing Mears (1838-1919), (presentation inscription on title "J. Ewing Mears, M.D. C.L.A."). FIRST EDITION. Norman 53. -- [SYMONDS, John Addington (1840-1893)]. A problem in modern ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists . London: [n.p.], 1896. 8 o. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, uncut. Number 2 of only 100 copies. Second edition. First printed in 1891 in an edition of only ten copies. Symonds, the English poet and man of letters was also a pioneer in the study of homosexuality. Norman 2046. (8)
PUBLIC AND ENVIROMENTAL HEALTH]. -- [SHATTUCK, Lemuel (1793-1859)]. Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850 . Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1850. 4 o. Uncut. Text illustrations, lithographed maps, 2 folding. Original brown printed wrappers, cloth spine (worn). Provenance : Austin Flint (1812-1866), cardiologist (presentation inscription from the author on front wrapper: "Austin Flint, M.D. With the regards of Lemuel Shattuck the Author"); Library of the New York State Medical Association (stamp on title page). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST GENERAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRESENTED TO AN AMERICAN GOVERNING BODY. The report included 50 specific recommendations on subjects such as the establishment of state and local boards of health, the collection of health data, vaccination, medical training and research, slum clearance and town planning. Shattuck has been called "the Chadwick of America". Garrison-Morton 1609; Norman 1935. -- [CHADWICK]. RICHARDSON, Benjamin Ward (1828-1896). The Health of Nations. A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick. With a biographical dissertation . London: Longman & others, 1887. 2 volumes, 8 o. Original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance : The Greenock Library (presentation letter from B.W. Richardson on behalf of Edwin Chadwick tipped into rear pastedown of Vol. 1). FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. "Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England" (Garrison-Morton 1625); Norman 436. -- PLIMSOLL, Samuel (1824-1898). Our Seamen. An Appeal . London: Virtue & Co., 1873. 2 o. Photographic plates. Original blue cloth, embossed in black (front cover joints worn and splitting). FIRST EDITION. Plimsoll devoted his career to the reofrm of British mercantile shipping. He insisted on a compulsory load-line (the "Plimsoll line") to stop the widespread use of overloaded ships and the deaths this caused. As a result of this work, a royal commission was established, and a few years later, in 1876, the Merchant Shipping Act was passed to enforce the measures Plimsoll recommended. Norman 1718. -- MARSH, George Perkins (1801-1882). Man and Nature; or, physical geography as modified by human action . New York: Charles Scribner, 1864. 8 o. (Occasional foxing). Black blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance : Fletcher Town Library (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "A comprehensive scientific account of man's enormous and often destructive impact on the natural world. Marsh warned of the reckless use of land then endemic in the United States" (Garrison-Morton 145.59); Norman 1443. -- GIFT, George Washington (b. 1833). Something about California: Being a description of its climate, health, wealth and resources ... Marin County: Its industries, roads, appearance, health and population ... the Sanatarium of San Rafael ... . San Rafael: The San Rafael Herald, 1875. 8 o. Original orange printed wrappers (front cover nearly detached). FIRST EDITION. Norman 904. -- ANDERSON, C.L. Santa Cruz for Homes. The climate, botany, geology, and health of Santa Cruz and vicinity . San Francisco: Wallace Elliott, 1879. 2 o. Lithographed map. Original blue printed wrappers (detached, worn). Provenance : James Ewing Mears (1838-1919), (presentation inscription on title "J. Ewing Mears, M.D. C.L.A."). FIRST EDITION. Norman 53. -- [SYMONDS, John Addington (1840-1893)]. A problem in modern ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists . London: [n.p.], 1896. 8 o. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, uncut. Number 2 of only 100 copies. Second edition. First printed in 1891 in an edition of only ten copies. Symonds, the English poet and man of letters was also a pioneer in the study of homosexuality. Norman 2046. (8)
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