‎Didion, Joan‎
‎Notes to John‎

‎Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the British , French & Dutch Schools belonging to John Reed, with notes by James L. Caw.‎

‎.: 10. Glasgow, James Maclehose and Sons, 1912, in-folio, 39 x 28 cm, title printed in red and black with tipped on vignette + xvii pp + 239 pp with 83 photolithographic plates of paintings, bound in publisher's half vellum, top edge gilt, printed in 230 numbered copies on high quality paper, binding and inner edge a bit dustsoiled but still a fine copy with a stainless interior. The collection was particularly strong on Dutch 19th century painting - Jozef Israëls, Jacob Maris , Anton Mauve , Willem Maris , Bernardus Blommers, but contained also 7 Corot paintings and the finished pastel study for the famous Angelus painting by Millet as well..‎

‎The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal his Tour to the Hebrides. A new Edition, with numerous Additions and Notes by John Wilson Croker.....also, upwards of Fifty engraved Illustrations. 10 vols.‎

‎London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Small 8vo. Bound in 10 uniform fine contemp. hcalf with richly gilt spines. !0 engraved portraits as frontispiece and 10 engraved titlepages (dated 1835). With many engraved plates, views, portraits a.facsimiles. Fine and clean.‎

‎The entire works of Dr Thomas SYDENHAM, newly made english from the originals : wherein the history of acute and chronic diseases, and the safest and most effectual methods of treating them, are faithfully, clearly, and accurately delivered. To which are added explanatory and practical notes, from the best medicinal writers ; with others by the translator : further illustrating the principal matters, and teaching the practice of inoculation, the use of chalybeats, and mineral waters, with the remedies and regimen proper for nephritic patients. The third edition, with all the notes inserted in their proper places by John SWAN ---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎London, Cave, 1753; un volume in 8 relié en plein veau, dos richement orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (quelques cahiers uniformément roussis), 1ff blanc, (1), 10pp., 22pp., (2-table), 672pp., (10-index)‎

‎---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE de cette traduction du latin en anglais par John SWAN ---- "Sydenham is one of the greatest figures in internal medicine and has been called the Father of english medicine . His reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina, measles, etc.". (Garrison N° 63 latin ed.) ---- Heirs of Hippocrates N° 554 : This work translated in 1742 from latin by John Swan, contains not only Sydenham's Methodus curandi febres but a number of his other works as well. His very popular Processus integri morbis fere omnibus corandis, Schedula monitoria, Treatise of the gout and dropsy, the hysteric passion in women and the hypochondriac disease in men, the apoplexy, the epilepsy or falling sickness in children, and epistles on venereal disease and small pox are also included" ---- "Sydenham included under hysteria all psychological ills short of frank alienation. He noted that hysterical symptoms were often accompanied by depression and that they could coexist with physical disease. He also knew that hypochondriacal complaints of men were similar to those symptom, which seize hysterical women , an observation which was later interpreted as meaning that the discovered male hysteria ...". (Hunter & Macalpine pp. 221/224) ---- Postel & Quetel p. 717 - Haymaker pp. 496 & 497 - MacHenry - DSB XIII pp. 213/215 - Zilboorg - DSB XIII pp. 213/215**4928/ARM2D‎

‎Notes on the two Jesuit Manuscripts Belonging to the estate of the Hon. John Neilson, of Quebec, Canada‎

‎Léon Bossue dit Lyonnais Hardcover New York 1887 Limited Edition‎

‎Fair Signed by the editor 8vo. 15 pages. Ex library, pocket at the end of the volume, cover sligthly worn. Limited to 100 copies. Inscribed by Fairchild to Judge Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1839-1920).‎

‎Notes on the two Jesuit Manuscripts Belonging to the Estate of the Late Hon. John Neilson, of Quebec, Canada. / Edited by Geo. M. Fairchild, Jr.‎

‎New York, Privately Printed, 1887. In-8 (22,9 cm) 15, (1) pages. Brochure en partie débrochée. Couverture originale couleur sable avec cachet et ex-dono : « To A.[rchibald] C.[haussegros] Léry Macdonald Esq, with Dr. Neilson’s Compliments. Tiré à 100 copies numérotées (no 76) et paraphé H. N., de l’imprimerie de Léon Bossue dit Lyonnais, New York City, June 1887. Dionne II, 1787. Lande 2177. Manque à Gagnon.‎

‎Surgeon-Major Hubert Neilson, fils du célèbre libraire, éditeur et imprimeur de Québec John Neilson .‎