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

Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, at the Stone-House, No. 41, South Second-Street, 1791. First edition of the Waters abridgment, appearing the same year as the Isaiah Thomas four-volume edition that was advertised as the first American edition. 8vo (8.13 x 5 inches), contemporary calf, raised bands, red leather label, gilt..... 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

New York: [n. p., but presumably Charles Lohman], 1847. First edition. 12mo (6.38 x 4.25 inches), original discreet blind-stamped unlettered green 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), is..... 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

Battle Creek, Mich. Published at the Office of the Health Reformer, 1875. First edition. 3 vols in 1 (as published), 8vo (7 x 4.5 inches), original purple-brown cloth, gilt lettering, 124, 60, 62, [4] pages. Illustrations in the ads. “The ‘hygienic system,’ or ‘health reform,’ as it is sometimes called..... 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: Printed by E. Russell, 1787. First edition. Unbound pamphlet (9.13 x 5.5 inches), 34, xiii, [4] pages, stitched. “Cases which afford hope of success are those in general called sudden death;—such as drowning, fainting, suffocating by the noxious vapours of burning coal, fermenting liquors, wells, cisterns, and other confined..... More

Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1785. First edition. 8vo (7 x 4.5 inches), presumed original sprinkled boards neatly rebacked in paper with the joints neatly reinforced, [2], 342 pages in an antiqua typeface. Title page vignette. A foundational anti-masturbation work from an important German educational reformer, novel for its basis in..... More

Paris: Chez Didot le Jeune, 1765. Stated third edition; a third edition was also published by Chapuis in 1764. 12mo (7.38 x 4.5 inches), original pasteboard laced case over leather strap supports, xxi, [1], 264 pages, untrimmed. Ink autograph titling to the spine. “Je me suis proposé d’écrire des maladies..... 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

Wheelock, (Vt.): Published by Jonathan Morrison; Danville: Eben’r. Eaton, Printer, 1824. First edition. 12mo (6.5 x 4 inches), original calf over scaleboard, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, 203, [1] pages. “Whilst among the Indians, the Author was a particular intimate and confidant of a native Indian, who had been..... More

Leipzig: bey Siegfried Lebracht Crusius, 1796. First edition. 8vo (6.75 x 4.25 inches), in a modern binding of a scrap leaf from an unknown 17th century edition of Bertius’s Commentariorum rerum germanicum libri tres, [i]-xvi, [1]-296, xvii-xxiv [the Inhalt, misbound in the rear]. Three folding plates. On the surgical and..... More