Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1806-1807. First edition. Contemporary calf spine, red morocco label, marbled boards, 8.5 x 5.25 inches, [4], 378, [6] pages. An ex-library copy, with the bookplate of the Greenfield Historical Society on the front pastedown and their ink stamp to the title page. 24 numbers..... More

Boston: Re-printed by Rogers and Fowle, for J. Edwards in Cornhill, 1746. Removed from an 18th century calf binding (with traces of the calf to the spine), 176 pages. 1746 was an unusually bad year for the "bloody flux" or dysentery in Massachusetts (see both Nash, Historical Sketch of the..... More

Paris: Chez Prault, 1784. First edition. 12mo, original blue wrappers, 7.13 x 4.3 inches, xxxv, [1], 251, [1] pages, unopened and untrimmed. An important study of animal magnetism and anticipatory of later psychological studies. Crabtree 116: "Thouret was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in Paris and one..... More

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. First edition. 12mo, original rose linen spine, printed drab boards, 84 pages. Poe enthusiast Joseph Jackson was fresh off his triumphant 1920 attribution to Poe of the uncommon pseudonymous anti-Dickens English Notes (Boston, 1842) by "Quarles Quickens," when, in Jackson's own..... More

[New York: P. G. Williams, 1902]. First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 40 pages. Extensively illustrated. Medical dry cell batteries, electrodes, accessories, Rhumkorff Induction Coils for office X-ray work, the Williams X-ray outfit, etc. (The Williams concern boasts in part of the quality of cabinet makers employed for constructing..... More

(Birmingham, England: Press of Hudson & Son), [ca. 1899]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 4 pages. Promotional material (including testimonials) for this "school for young stammerers" run by Mr. and Mrs. Beasley in Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, "Where Education in all its branches, embracing the highest..... More

(Cincinnati: Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., 1879). [but ca. 1891]. A later version of this promotional pamphlet. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers, 30, [8] pages. Illus. On the myriad benefits of this galvanic belt, aimed in large part at male sexual debility and impotence; Pulvermacher was one of the pioneers in this..... More

Fall River, Mass. Wm. S. Robertson, Steam Printer, 1877. Second edition; the 47-page first edition appeared in Irvinton, N.J., in 1848. 8vo, unbound, 40 pages. On October 28, 1858, Bourne was asked to attend Christian Chapel in Westerly, R.I., and to this request evidently "said within himself, 'I would rather..... More

[Des Moines, Iowa: Chamberlain Medicine Company, ca. 1890-1900?]. 8vo, original decorated self wrappers, [16] pages. An advertising pamphlet for patent medicines: Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera & Diarrhea Remedy, Chamberlain's Antiseptic Liniment, Chamberlain's Salve (good for burns, piles, sore nipples, etc.). Interspersed with the testimonials are a number of humorous stories, jokes..... More

[New York]: American Tract Society, [1832]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 6.75 x 4.25 inches, 8 pages. “Many and awful are the national sins that may have drawn down upon us this visitation. The highest privileges ever granted to a people have been by multitudes neglected and scorned. Obscene impurities, drunkenness..... More

New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering, 240 pages. “The means used for preventing conception, more particularly affecting women, together with the more bodily injurious, more nervously exhausting and more sinfully demoralizing procedures, for the purpose of destroying and making away with..... More

Chicago: The Aggressive Publishing Co., 2321 W. North Ave. (1924). First edition. 8vo, original printed gray wrappers, [vi], 33 pages, printed nearly entirely on the rectos only. Dalsey here claims his essays on human character "are based on a new system of philosophy, conceived, tested and proved" (though he seems..... More

[Buffalo, N. Y. n. p., ca. 1941]. First edition. Small 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, 32 pages. A typical promotional pamphlet, more attractive than most, from the longtime Buffalo patent medicine firm, under the guiding hand of the son of the late Dr. R. V. Pierce; the firm specialized in..... More