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Half green morocco over marbled boards, G++. 320pp, spine rubbed & worn a little, otherwise a nice copy.

Half green morocco over marbled boards, VG. viii+279pp, b/w illustrations, leather rubbed a little, otherwise a nice copy.

Decorated cloth gilt, VG. viii+279pp, b/w illustrations, a nice copy in a highly decorated cloth binding with foliate gilt decoration.

Decorated cloth gilt, VG. 320pp, b/w illustrations, a nice copy in a highly decorated cloth binding with foliate gilt decoration.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket as Issued Cloth First Thus 1809-94, American author and physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1829; M.D., 1836); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He began his medical career as a general practitioner but shifted into the academic field, becoming professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth (1838-40), dean of the Harvard medical school (1847-53), and Parkman professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard (1847-82). A stimulating and popular speaker, he published two important medical lectures, one in opposition to the practice of homeopathy and the other on the nature of fevers. His first important poem, Old Ironsides (1830), was a protest against the scrapping of the fighting ship Constitution. A collection of his witty occasional poems was published in 1836. In 1857 he began to contribute to the Atlantic Monthly (which he named) the famous series of Breakfast-table sketches, which were collected in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) and several subsequent volumes. These urbane pieces present imaginary conversations at a Boston boardinghouse, reflecting Holmes’s opinions, charm, and wit. The first volume includes several poems, of which the most famous are the ironic Deacon’s Masterpiece and The Chambered Nautilus. Among his other notable works are three novels presenting a scientific approach to psychological traits, most notably Elsie Venner (1861); and biographies of his friends John Lothrop Motley (1879) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1855). Rebound in strong library binding

8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall First Trade Edition, after privately printed 1878 edition. Nice Tight Clean copy ! Dark green cloth, black, gold and silver pictorial decor, beveled boards. All page ends gold gilt. Silver decorated endpapers. Cloth worn at board tips, frayed at spine ends. 79 pages. 8202

8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall Leather spine and board tips, marble paper covered boards. Roughcut pages ends, top edges gold gilt. Nice Tight Clean copy ! Spine leather intact but missing some decorative overlay. Board edges rubbed. 307 pages. 8815

Edition not stated. Full soft leather with marbled end plates. Owners inscription dated 1909

red and brown cloth slightly faded, pages rough cut, fast dispatch from UK seller