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: Fowler and Wells, Publishers, 1862. First edition? 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 276, [2], [4] pages. Also published with the R. T. Trall & Co. imprint bearing the copyright date of 1862, this Fowler & Wells edition perhaps with priority. Per the Atwater catalog, perhaps Trall’s..... More

New York: For sale, wholesale and retail, by O. S. Fowler and L. N. Fowler, [ca. 1840-1845]. Stated 151st edition. 2 vols, each in printed yellow wrappers paginated [1]-4 and with the text, “Pathological Facts,” 7.25 x 4.25 inches, 19, [5] pages. Illus. A moderately early phrenological work, published prior..... More

Paris: Victor Masson, 1853. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.88 x 5.63 inches, 150 pages. Illus. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the half-title and signed La Corbière. Suggestive of the relationships between free thought, progressive causes, and the practice of phrenology, a monograph from the ex-Carbonaro, 1830 revolutionary..... More

New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1884. Stated fourth edition. Original printed drab wrappers, 7.25 x 4.88 inches, 34, [10] pages, wire stitched. First published by the phrenological and health reform house Fowler & Wells in 1881, essentially an extended advertisement for the Health Food Company of New York—which appears..... More