[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

Carlisle [Pennsylvania]: Gedruckt fur der Verfasser, 1826. First edition. 12mo, original sheep spine, marbled boards, 164, [4] pages. The first edition of what seems to have become a moderately popular German-American home herbalist pharmacopeia; the OCLC entry quietly emends the title-page spelling here of haus-arzeneybuch to haus-arzneybuch, which may create..... 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

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

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

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