[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

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

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

[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

New York: [n. p], 1850. A new printing from the plates of the 1847 first edition. 12mo, original discreet blind-stamped unlettered black cloth, xiii, [1], 238 pages. “In France, and on the Continent of Europe generally, a covering (used by the male), called a *baudruche* (known as the French Secret)..... 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

Boston: Allan and Ticknor, 1833. First American edition. 8vo, original smooth rose cloth, printed spine label, xii, 220 pages. Illus. American Imprints 21576. 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

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

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

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

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

London: John Churchill, 1862. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), viii, 60 pages + 7 pages of ads. "It may, perhaps, by considered by some persons that the present is not a very pleasant, or a very delicate subject to discuss." A presentation copy, with an ink inscription on..... More