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

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

A Londres [i.e., Paris?]: n. p., 1786. First edition. 8vo, contemporary sheep, gilt spine, xxii, 255. The author’s case study of a magnetic treatment of a woman (for headaches, etc.) and her episodes of slipping into a trance state under treatment; Tardy de Montravel attempts in part to explain accounts..... More

[New York: n. p., ca. 1901]. First edition. Small 8vo, original pictorial glazed yellow wrappers, 15, [1] pages. Illus. Home battery systems, including the “20th Century Battery,” from the agency best known for its electric belts. The batteries are said to cure paralysis, rheumatism, neuralgia, etc., the whole illustrated with..... 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

New York: German Electric Agency, [ca. 1893]. Likely a later version of this quack device promotional catalog. Small 8vo, wire stitched into original color lithograph wrappers in red and black (with the wrapper title “The Electric Era”), 24 pages. Illus. “Although Electricity, properly applied, is a wonderful remedy of nearly..... More

(Cleveland, O. The Therenoid Corporation), [ca. 1929]. First edition. 12mo, original printed blue wrappers, 48 pages. Illus. The myriad benefits of this electromagnetic solenoid belt, suitable for home treatment of anything from insomnia to insanity to Bright’s Disease: “A short time ago a very good physician here in Los Angeles..... More

Burbank: Health Science Church, (1937). First edition. Small 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, 62 pages, illus. The well-known advocate of unprocessed foods and the theoretician behind the ascendancy of Jack La Lanne here presents the religious and nutritional foundations behind his system of healthy diet and other esoteric practices (he..... 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

Boston: J. P. Mendum, at the Office of the ‘Boston Investigator,’, 1875. Stated tenth edition, reissued here with an cancel title page. 8vo, original decorated brown cloth, gilt lettering, 88, [1] pages. Frontis, illus. This edition includes the note from Vale in which (per Atwater) “he discusses conception and its..... More

Wilmington, Del. Ferris Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, 1886. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 6.25 x 4.5 inches, [i-iv], [7]-31, [1] pages. “When I was nineteen years of age I walked a thousand miles to overcome a constitutional ailment that was dragging me down to an early grave. I spent..... More