New-York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. First American edition. 8vo, original gilt- and blind-stamped green cloth (with an attractive gilt skull on the spine), gilt lettering, 490, [2] pages. Frontis after Hogarth. An entertaining compilation of historical anecdote, which met with sufficient success to encourage Jeaffreson to follow up with A...... More
New York: n. p., (1870). First edition? 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 192 pages. An early edition of the celebrated lectures on sex disorders, female diseases and the evils of onanism from one of the members of the enterprising Kahn/Jordan family of anatomy museum proprietors; this copy with..... More
[Emportia]: Emporia Gazette Press, 1942. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, 292 pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. Detailed history compiled by the Federal Writers’ Project, under the guidance of the Kansas State Nurses’ Association. With a nice appropriate gift inscription on the front free endpaper, “Miss Carolyn Ogden..... More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1853. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 150 pages, unopened. Illus. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink to a doctor and signed La Corbière. Suggestive of the relationship between free thought and progressive causes and the practice of phrenology, a monograph from the ex-Carbonaro and 1830 revolutionary..... More
Philadelphia: Marshall, Clark and Co.; Providence: Marshall, Brown and Co., 1833. First edition. 8vo, original blue muslin, 79, [1] pages. One piece of a puzzle that may lead to the first student of African descent to have graduated from Harvard Medical School. Alumni publications list Bertrand François Bugard was a...... More
(Cleveland: Press of the Publishing House of the Evangelical Association), 1908. Stated twenty-second edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, xvi, [1]-31, 31a-31b, 32, 32a-32b, 33-433, 15, [4] pages. Frontis portrait. Copyright 1878, though the (ample) testimonial letters run through 1905. On the impurity of blood as the root..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1978). First edition. Hardcover. Folio, original black cloth, 616 pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. An attractive survey, substantial enough perhaps to call for a reinforced coffee table. More
San Francisco, January 22, 1879. 2 pages on a single leaf of pictorial printed letterhead, approx. 230 words. With the original pictorial cover (stamp removed). A relative newcomer to the vital magnetic field, MacLennan writes back east to a more established colleague, “I have heard a good deal spoken of..... More
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[Richwood, West Virginia? n. p., ca. 1915]. Original printed envelope with die-cut decal of a satisfied Sherwood’s customer, envelope 7.5 x 2.5 inches. Two thin metal foot pads, approx. 6.5 x 1.88 inches. Additional printed label of the Sherwood Magnetic Foot Pads device laid into the envelope, glassine liner present..... More
Venezia: Antonio Graziosi, 1774. Third Italian edition. 8vo, contemporary vellum spine, sprinkled boards, [2], 164 pages. A nice early Italian edition of this critical work in the pathologization of masturbation. Perhaps an obversation might be made on the spread of a fundamentally Protestant approach to the idea of a “solitary..... More
London: Printed by G. Taylor, 1834. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 109, [2] pages. A sterling and entrepreneurial example of taking legal lemons and transforming them into marketing lemonade, the account of a trial of Joseph Webb, a self-styled “hygeist” who prescribed for an ailing Richard Richardson a...... More
New York: Wm. A. Mercien, Printer, 1831. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 12 pages. "Another member of the society, has insisted very strongly upon the circumstance that the institution is not '*called* Secret Association, but *6Kappa Lambda,* a branch of the Parent Society.' The committee do not know..... More
Charleston [S. C.]: Printed by J. S. Burges, 183 King-St. 1834. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 9 x 5.75 inches, stitched as issued, untrimmed, 23, [1] pages. Unopened. A salvo in an ongoing controversy among the medical men of South Carolina, between the Medical College of South Carolina and the Medical..... More
Boston: Published by Bradford & Read, 1815. First American edition. 8vo, original tree calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, 442, [2] pages. The detailed clinical descriptions of fevers from the Scottish physician and moderate eccentric (see the DNB), here with corrections for the American edition. Nice early book..... More
Columbus [O.]: Published by Pike, Platt and Co., M. L. Lewis......Printer, 1832. An early edition of this popular work. 12mo, contemporary (likely original) tree calf, red morocco label, gilt lettering, 206, [2] pages, edges sprinkled. First published in 1829 in Columbus, O., based on a series of lectures delivered in..... More
Philadelphia: Henry H. Porter, Publisher, 1832. First edition. 8vo, original purple linen spine (sunned), blue-green boards, large printed orange label to the upper board, 4, 80 pages. “A man of business walks about in wet streets, and amid showers of rain, with impunity—protected as he is by thick-soled boots or..... More
[Norwich, Conn.]: Chas. C. Haskell & Son, 1898. First edition. Original self-wrappers, 6.13 x 3.5 inches, 60 pages on newsprint, wire stitched. A promotional piece for Haskell and Son’s 1898 republication of the combined edition of Dewey’s True Science of Living: The Gospel of Health and for the republication of..... More
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by William Spotswood, 1793. First American edition. 12mo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 216 pages. “If the human body could be subjected to such decisive experiments, as have so wonderfully improved our knowledge in natural philosophy, during this century, then the causes of internal..... More
Worthington, Ohio: Printed for the Proprietors, by Scott & Gallagher, 1836-1838. First edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, black leather labels, gilt lettering, [i]-iv, [17]-384; [i]-iv, [1]-192 pages. An important eclectic medical journal from the early Ohio medical school at Worthington (this volume in a contemporary binding and bound without issue number..... More
Nyköping: Tryckt hos Petter Winge, 1797. First edition. Small 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, [2], 150, [2] pages. An uncommon handy medical remedy book from the Swedish clergyman-physician Segerstedt (1763-1815). OCLC locates a single copy, at the Swedish National Library (and two locations for an 1809 edition; NUC notes..... More
Hartsville [Steuben Co., New York], Feb. 12, 1854. 3 pages on an unlined bifolium, 9.88 x 7.88 inches, approx. 850 words. No cover. Isaac Downs (1818-1910) writes to his parents with personal news and detailed discussion of local agricultural prices and his luck on working with a team of steers..... More
Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen]: C. A. Reitzel, 1894. First edition. 8vo, contemporary purple half sheep, black pebbled cloth boards, 168 pages. An argument for reform of mental health laws around institutionalization and consent, from a judge who had himself in 1889, at the request of his nephew, been certified insane by a...... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843. First American edition. Stitched pamphlet (lacks wrappers), 9 x 5.88 inches, 56 pages plus 14 (of an evident 18) pages of publisher’s ads. Cordasco 40-0435; see Crabtree 474 for the 1843 London edition: “An important document in the history of animal magnetism. Elliotson describes the..... More
New York: Published by G. Vale, [1858]. Stated tenth edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 88, [1] pages. Frontis, illus. The Atwater catalog notes that this edition adds a note from Owen’s associate Gilbert Vale, who published this edition, “in which he discusses conception and its prevention,” including douching..... More
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Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers, [ca. 1898]. First edition. Original white self-wrappers, 6.5 x 4.5 inches, [32] pages, wire stitched. Illus. Early detailed promotional pamphlet for a Chicago osteopath, who had trained under Still at the Kirksville institute; the pamphlet includes press extracts of addresses delivered by Sullivan in Chicago..... More
