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FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN
Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital; From its First Rise, to the Beginning of the Fifth Month, called May, 1754. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1754
FIRST EDITION of Benjamin Franklin’s account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital established in the British colonies, co-founded by Franklin with his friend Dr. Thomas Bond. It remains a leading medical institution in Philadelphia.
$17,500
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KINSEY, ALFRED , et al
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1948
FIRST EDITION of this classic, a book that helped usher in the sexual revolution.
$3,500
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BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE
Le Deuxieme Sexe [The Second Sex]. Paris: Gallimard, 1949
FIRST EDITION. One of 2000 numbered copies (from an edition of 2,150).
$3,500
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CARTER, JOHN and PERCY MUIR, eds.
Printing and the Mind of Man: a descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilization during five centuries. Munich: Pressler, 1983
SECOND EDITION, revised and enlarged.
$125