Very good. This rare and charming premium issued by the Portuguese division of Bayer Pharmaceuticals consists of three 4" x 6" color lotto-style cards depicting Bayer products and various characters experiencing sore throats, headaches, toothaches, flu, and similar maladies. Sufferers include a policeman, soldier, sailor, judge, jockey, barber, doctor, fisherman..... Item #23245
Chicago: Wm. J. Moxley, Inc., 1913. Softcover. Very good. 5.5" x 8", [16] pp, illustrated. One crease on front cover, light handling wear; very good. An engaging promotional piece for margarine, intended to convince readers of the product's virtues (sanitary, flavorful, inexpensive) relative to butter. Told in the first-person, it..... Item #22099
St. Louis: Paris Medicine Company, [1897]. Softcover. Good. Memorandum book given away by the Paris Medicine Company, with space for making notes on rectos and advertisements and testimonials on the versos. The majority of the text is in English, but there are also ads in French, Spanish, German, and Czech..... Item #21645
Boston: Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, 1916. Softcover. Very good. Publication No. 9 of the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1916. 8 pp, stapled. Short tears at left margin, but still very good. Argues that "the attitude of suspicion, fear, and avoidance..... Item #21873
New York: Mohun, Ebbs & Hough, 1864. Softcover. Very good. Fourth edition, with addenda. Disbound (removed from a larger volume, without wrappers), 36 pp, very good. A classic of modern mainstream diet literature, the first to popularize a low-carbohydrate diet as the path to weight loss. At one time obese..... Item #24325
Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1825. Wraps. Good. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4", disbound from a larger volume (lacking the orignal wraps?); pp. [3], 4-63; pages significantly toned, otherwise very good. The "transactions" portion herein are of standard fare, but the President's Address by Dr. Coventry (1785-1831) is another matter altogether..... Item #20293
St. Louis: 1878. Softcover. Good. Scarce German-language medical booklet issued by the proprietors of the Grand Museum of Anatomy in St. Louis. 5.75" x 3.75", 161 pp. Text complete and binding sound. but lacks wrappers, and a large chip is missing from the lower corner of the title page; good..... Item #24122
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 370 pp, indexed and illustrated. Original green cloth binding, worn at corners, with fraying and a small tear at the head of the spine. Pale stain on front board, remnants of a bookseller's label or bookplate on front pastedown, and, sadly..... Item #21738
London: David Bogue, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 96 pp + 32 (publisher's catalogue). Light general wear to boards, scattered foxing throughout. Self-help advice from the inventor of the vibrator (innocently intended for muscle massage, but soon adaped to other purposes). Item #2713
Manchester and London: Manchester University Press/Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. Publications of the University of Manchester No. CXXXIX. 114 pp + 51 plates, most from photographs taken under the microscope by J.W.C. Goethart, Director of the Herbarium at Leiden University. Original green cloth, no dust..... Item #13530
Burlington, IA: I.F. Segner, 1893. Hardcover. Good. New edition, revised and enlarged. 660 pp, indexed, in original maroon cloth binding decorated in gilt and black. Lettering rubbed off on spine, rubbing and fraying to corners and spine ends, repair to rear hinge, Some creasing to upper outer corners of pages..... Item #21420
New York: McFadden Publications, 1925. Softcover. Very Good. x, 179 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, in original wrappers with yapp edges. Wrappers chipped at the edges; some light creasing to corners of a few pages; else clean and sound. "In these pages, I propose to tell you something of the..... Item #326
London: Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: Being an Attempt to Deduce from the Phenomena of Nature such Rules of Living as May Greatly Tend to Correct the Evil and Restore the Health of Mankind to its Pristine Health and Vigour; forming..... Item #19434
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in original wrappers. Text: 7 x 10 inches, pp vii, 87, with index. Abbildungen:10 x 13 inches, pp iv, 153 pp, all illustrations (most from photographs, some diagrams and line drawings). Light handling wear and dust soiling to both volumes, text..... Item #1742
Paris: Masson, 1983. Softcover. Very good. Trade paperback, 220 pp, with index and bibliography. Light general reading wear. Binding sound, text unmarked. Text in French. On the research into and pros and cons of hallucinogenic drugs as used in various disciplines, including psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and ethnobotany. Item #13826
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 222 pp, 7.5 x 5.25 inches, in publisher's blue cloth with mounted spine label. Spine toned, label rubbed but legible, one small stain on front board. Internally clean and sound. No dust jacket. Elizabeth Cabot Putnam was the daughter of..... Item #21532
