[Paris]: Imprimerie Nationale.—Juillet, 1887. Broadside (22.25 x 30.5 inches), printed in red and black ink on thin laid paper. A handsome and ephemeral official broadside prospectus, advertising the first national trade exposition of French beer and brewing, here inviting interested exhibitors to submit their applications to the Ministry of Agriculture..... More

New-York: William H. Colyer; Boston: Phillips & Sampson, 1848. A later American edition. 12mo, original blind-stamped light blue cloth, gilt lettering, 287, [1] pages. First published in America in 1836, this edition seems to be taken from Combe’s 1841 Edinburgh edition; with reference to Beaumont. (Combe had first published Beaumont’s..... More

London: Published by William Cobbett, 183 Fleet-Street, 1828. First edition. 8vo, later 19th century polished half calf, marbled boards, [269] unnumbered pages. Three plates. On the cultivation of American corn, with much on American agriculture and customs; the first two leaves are printed on corn paper. Cobbett also includes glances..... More

[Chicago: Apyrotropher Publishing and Supply House], 1924. First edition. Original self wrappers, 8.88 x 6 inches, [20] pages. Illus. A wonderful look at alternative living in Roaring Twenties Chicago, essentially an extended advertisement for Drews’s concern: raw foods, sunlight baths, uplifting publications on vegetarian raw diets, food mills, carrot graters..... More

[Louisville]: L. Bergman, Photo, [between 1872-1878]. Original albumen portrait of Monsch (3.5 x 2.25 inches) on a CDV mount with a printed caption. An occupational-promotional photo card—Monsch sits on a beer keg in Louis Bergman’s photo studio and leans against two more stacked kegs. Trade directories have Louis Bergman setting..... More