Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 47, Washington Street, New York: J. Leavitt, 182, Broadway, 1829. First American edition. 12mo (8 x 5 inches), original rose cloth spine to an adhered-boards binding, drab boards, printed paper label, [i-iv], [13]-344 pages, untrimmed. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. “This edition of the Memoirs of..... More

Boston: Published by White & Potter, 1847. First edition. Original printed green wrappers (lacks rear wrapper), 8.13 x 5 inches, 35, [1] pages. “The following cases first appeared in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, and in different numbers of that work. They are now published together, with such alteration..... More

[New York: S. R. Beckwith, ca. 1896]. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed peach wrappers, 64 pages. Illus. The potential customer is asked to carefully notice “our discovery bears no relation to electricity as generally understood, which by its jars, shocks and bunching of tissue is harmful. The force we..... More

Philadelphia: Published [by Henry Porter] at No. 108 Chesnut Street [vol. 1; vol. 2:] Literary Rooms, No. 121 Chesnut Street, Office of the Journal of Health, Family Library of Health, &c. 1830-1832. First edition. 3 vols, 8vo (8.68 x 5.38 inches), vols. 1-2 in contemporary full calf with gilt lettering..... More

[Cleveland, O. Metropolitan Chiropractic College, Inc., ca. 1931]. First edition. Original self-wrappers, approx. 9 x 6 inches, 16 pages on coated white stock, illus. Course catalog and promotional pamphlet for this chiropractic college in Cleveland, O.: “Because of the universal need, Chiropractors are unusually successful. The field is not overcrowded.”..... More

Bound Brook, N. J. Asa K. Butts, 1886. A later American printing of this landmark work on contraception, but with an interesting imprint. (See below.). 8vo, original printed wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of Besant. Besant had revolutionized the publication of contraceptive information in England after her republication of..... More

London: Printed by W. Glindon, Rubert-Street, Hay-Market, [1801]. First edition. Stitched pamphlet (lacks upper wrapper; lower blue sugar paper wrapper present), 9.13 x 5.75 inches, [1-2]; [i]-vii, [1]; [3]-64 pages, untrimmed. "Gout--venereal complaints in the fourth degree--scurvy in the third and fourth degrees--melancholy--mania--dropsy, especially that called the dry dropsy of..... More

Lancaster: Gedruckt für den Verfasser, von Johann Bär, 1831. First edition. 12mo (7.13 x 4.25 inches), original calf, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering and spine ornaments, 118 pages. A characteristic German-American remedy book, with evidently much in the way of herbal compounds and a few maladies and remedies rendered..... More

New York: Printed for O. Taylor & Co., 1826. A later edition of this popular herbal materia medica; the first appeared in 1811. Removed unbound pamphlet, 6.63 x 4 inches, 23, [1] pages. A moderately early edition of this popular herbal (it was republished at least through 1842), which owed..... More

(Hollywood: De Kama Co., 1933). First edition. Self-wrappered pamphlet on blue paper stock, 6 x 3 inches, 11, [1] pages. Illus. “After many years of research and the expenditure of thousands of dollars, De Kama achieved his ORIGINAL ACTIVE GLAND EXTRACT. This extract was not at first used in beauty..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. 8vo (7.88 x 5.13 inches), original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering, 360 pages. Illus. in the text. Atwater 2242: "Lewis discusses the causes of consumption (e.g., impure air, dust, atmospheric moisture, etc.); the much exaggerated influence of climate in the production or amelioration..... 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

[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