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BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. America's first female Medical Doctor. Collection of five books owned and signed by Elizabeth Blackwell: Signed "Blackwell" in each volume, on the first leaf of publisher's ads at the front of each volume. Pencil note, possibly by Elizabeth Blackwell, "circular mouth", on p. iii of the Contents in.....
Walker is the first woman in the U.S. to practice as a surgeon and remains the only woman to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor. Very scarce and important autograph letter signed, 1 page. 1896. 3.75" x 5.25". Verso is blank. In pencil, she writes: “Yours in every noble cause.....
Harriot Hunt (1805-1875) was the first American woman to practice medicine professionally. Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. First edition, "Fourth Thousand" printing. Inscribed "From the Author" on inside front endpaper. Brown cloth boards. Very scarce, held.....
Synopsis: Archive of 25 pieces celebrating the rise of nursing as the first medical profession for women. The first trained nurses entered the field in the 1860s, and their knowledge of antisepsis and hygiene immediately reduced fatalities in hospitals and on the Civil War battlefronts. Amidst their life-saving duties, these.....
Gregory Pincus. Father of The Oral Contraceptive Pill. Bound collection of 31 rare offprints of Pincus’s scientific publications on fertility research and the first oral contraceptive. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Dark red textured cloth boards. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 3 (1950-1959)” gilt on front cover. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 3” gilt on.....
First Edition . Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery: Proceedings Jointly Sponsored by the Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and Harvard University at the Computation Laboratory, 7-10 January 1947. (Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1948). Volume XVI in the Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. 302 pages. Text illustrations.....
[Contraception] Gregory Pincus. Father of The Oral Contraceptive Pill. Bound collection of 36 rare offprints of Pincus’s scientific publications on fertility research and in vitro fertilization. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Dark red textured cloth boards. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 2 (1937-1949)” gilt on front cover. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 2” gilt on.....
Suslowa [Suslova], Nadeschda. First Edition. Beitrage zur Physiologie der Lymphherzen. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwurde in der Medicin, Chirurgie und Geburtshulfe vorgelegt der hohen medicinische Facultat der Universitat Zurich: Zurich, 1867. 24 pages. Original paper wrappers, with single loose leaf: “Praelectio inauguralis.” Suslova was one of seven women who pioneered.....
First female Ph.D. in Germany. Gottingen, Germany: 1895. Grace Chisolm's German language doctoral dissertation "Algebraic group-theoretical studies on spherical trigonometry" at the University of Gottingen made her the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in any field from a German university, and it led her to a fruitful research career.....
Rachel Carson “Silent Spring.” Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston, 1962. First edition, later printing of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Rachel Carson on the half-title page. Rachel Carson pushed for policies related to environmental preservation and human health protection. Signed "Rachel L Carson" on half title page.....
Sophie Kowalevski. “Property of the System of Differential Equations.” Mathematical Paper. 1890. First Edition and first printing (in French). 12 pages. Neatly removed from a mathematical journal. Folio size about 9”x11”. Paper from one of Russia’s most important female Mathematicians. Article is full of mathematical equations and proofs. Kowalevski was.....
A collection of 43 original silver gelatin photographs from students at co-educational Monson Academy in Massachusetts, c. 1899-1901. A large, ornate leather album with cameo on cover. The antique album cover has gilt and and brown designs with a beautiful dark-haired woman's cameo in the center. Album size is aprox.....
Margaret Mead, an American social scientist, used her studies of non-Western native cultures to disrupt modern gender stereotypes and advise social change in how boys and girls are educated about their bodies and identities. . Two Typed Letters from Mead, responding to a correspondent about her experiences and knowledge of.....
[Nurses] [WWI] [Photo Album]. This photo album which dates back to 1915 depicts a crew of young women studying nursing, as well as soldiers, airplanes, and family life in locations across the USA. 184 silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from cutouts at 1.5” x 1” inches to a couple.....
Florence Seibert. Pebbles on the Hill of a Scientist. St. Petersburg, FL: Florence Seibert, 1968. Signed by author. 9 x 6.5 in. Original boards and dust jacket. Very good. Autobiography of the history-making scientist whose research paved the way for creating a safe and reliable test for tuberculosis. Her groundbreaking.....
[B2FH] [Women in Science] Reviews of Modern Physics. Vol. 29, No. 4. October 1957. 103 pages, size 8" x 12." Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, in Reviews of Modern Physics.The B2FH paper was a landmark scientific paper on the origin of the chemical elements. The paper's title is Synthesis.....
[Women Education] Handwritten memory and scrapbook form a Texas high school girl, 1923-1925. Filled with over 25 handwritten inscriptions from friends and teachers, as well an original handwritten story about the graduating class, 85 silver gelatin print photographs, and 85 pieces of ephemera including ribbons, party invitations, and press clippings.....
[Childbirth] Midwives were responsible for the safe delivery of the foetus. Their work could be a steady and chosen occupation. Initially there was no formal training or the need to obtain a license, but this changed within Europe in the 1700’s since some town authorities recognized the need for trained.....
[Women Education] [Medical School] Photo archive of women students at Duke University School of Medicine, Class of 1950. Consist of 23 original Gelatin silver print black and white photos. 3 x 4 ¼ inches. c. 1940s-1950. Images show students at work in blood banks, in labs, studying, and relaxing between.....
Margaret Sanger, Winter Russell. “Debate on Birth Control”. People’s Pocket Series No. 208, Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. Haldeman-Julius Company: Girard, Kansas. 1921. 63 pages. 5 x 3.5 in. Very rare first edition copy of Sanger’s 1921 Debate on Birth Control against Winter Russell. Light brown cover. At the time that.....
May French-Sheldon. Sultan to Sultan. Boston: Arena Publishing Co., 1892. Numbered edition. Certificate No 488. 435 pages. 9 x 7 in. Original red cloth boards with gilt title. Signed and inscribed by author. 26 full-page black and white illustrations, along with over a hundred smaller illustrations throughout. Comes with note.....
Annie Nathan Meyer [editor]. Woman’s Work in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1891. Bumping and wear to all corners and extremities. Wear and tearing at top of spine, and small tear at bottom. Wrapped in blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. This volume includes writings by many.....
[Women's in Sciences] Original Photograph. C. 1860-1880. Sepia. Approximately 6" x 9" Inches. Written in black ink in the upper left corner "State Eclectic Medical Society at Worthington". Photo shows about 25 women along with their male peers. The the first woman graduated medical school in the 1850s. The Eclectic.....
Le Rebours, Marie Angelique Anel. Advice for Mothers Wishing to Nurse their Children. Paris. 1783. In French. Hardcover. Brown Morocco boards. Binding is decorated with gilt flower motifs and gilded stamp of French title, “avis aux mères.” Third Edition of Le Rebours bestselling book, first published in 1770. No first.....
Clarke, Ida Clyde [Editor] Women of 1924, International. New York: The Women's News Service Inc., 1924. Octavo, original red pebbled boards, gilt titles to cover. 386 pages. A remarkable compilation of women's achievement internationally. As the editor writes, "The record this book contains is presented to the public with no.....