![Item #3937 [GENETICS AND HEREDITY 1744]. Dissertation Physique a l'Occasion du Negre Blanc....](/pictures/thumb/3937.jpg?v=1674534201)
Leiden: s.n., 1744. First Edition. 8vo. 5 ff. (of 6, lacking half-title), 132 pp. Early 19th-century green glazed boards, spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece, marbled pastedowns and endleaves. Binding slightly rubbed, lower cover scuffed. An attractive copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest and most importance works..... More
![Item #3917 [AMERICAN FOLK MEDINE, 1867]. Dr Chase's Recipes; or, Information For Everybody: An...](/pictures/thumb/3917.jpg?v=1672887594)
Ann Arbor: Published by the author, 1867. 'Forty-Fifth Edition" / "Three Hundred and Fourth Thousand" 8vo. [2], xxix, [2], 34-384 pp. Illustrated with a portrait of the author and numerous in-text woodcuts and diagrams throughout. Original publisher's morocco binding gilt extra, at the corners of both covers are medicine bottles..... More
![Item #3889 [BINDING - OTTOMAN, 1868]. [TOXICOLOGY OF ANIMALS, PLANTS AND MINERALS]. Nüzhet...](/pictures/thumb/3889.jpg?v=1666718424)
Istanbul: Mekteb-i tibbiye-i Sahane, 1868. Small 8vo. 4 pp., [4 pp.], 137 pp., [2] pp. of lithographed text (some foxing or staining). Contemporary Turkish brown goatskin richly gilt (slight wear to binding extremities), original yellow endpapers with relief floral pattern (missing front endpaper). Occasional old annotations on the first pages..... More
![Item #3846 [ABSTINENCE PLEDGE CARD ca. 1830-1850]. Unknown Temperance Society](/pictures/thumb/3846.jpg?v=1666718205)
1830-1850. 1 leaflet (107 x 70 mm), torn with loss of text on the left side (see below). Folds and fraying. VERY EARLY PRINTED ABSTINENCE PLEDGE -- A REMARKABLE SURVIVAL. We are unable to explain why this shabby piece of printed paper was saved for more than 160 years, but..... More
![Item #3841 [FLICKER CARDS / GYNECOLOGY]. Sex Efficiency Through Exercises. Special Physical...](/pictures/thumb/3841.jpg?v=1666718187)
London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), 1933. First English edition. 8vo. xviii, 164 pp. With 58 full-page illustrations and 480 flicker cards bound in to produce 12 "cinematographic films." Two flip cards with short tears (not affecting images or functionality). Original blue publisher's cloth (shaken, extremities worn, front hinge cracked, front..... More
![Item #3835 [ANTI-SMOKING IN 1687]. De morborum curationibus tractatus curiosus (D. M. E. P....](/pictures/thumb/3835.jpg?v=1666718157)
Lugduni (imprint false: likely printed in Germany): 1687. First Edition. 8vo (180 x 100 mm). [8], 295 pp. Later German quarter calf over decorated blue paper boards (actually two different sheets were utilized), printed waste utilized as spine lining (the text is in Latin and French), vellum corner tips, black..... More
![Item #3754 [COMFORTING PRISONERS CONDEMNED TO DEATH]. Documenti per confortare i condannati a...](/pictures/thumb/3754.jpg?v=1652998060)
Turin: Heirs of Colonna, 1690. Third edition. 12mo. 1 blank fol. + [6], 424 pp. (some foxing throughout, pp. 135-170 with worming in blank lower margins, rather ugly but touching only four letters). Contemporary Italian vellum, four raised bands on spine, in the second compartment the author's name and title..... More
![Item #3677 [ANTI-PSYCHIATRY MANIFESTO FROM THE AVANT-GARDE "LETTRISM" GROUP]. "Nous demandons...](/pictures/thumb/3677.jpg?v=1643381051)
Paris: 1969. 1 leaf (210 X 297mm), dactylograph on recto/verso, dated 30 September 1969. ¶ SCARCE ANTI-PSYCHIATRY MANIFESTO BY THE "GROUPE LETTRISTE," a French avant-garde movement which involved political theory, art, film, and poetry. "Lettrism" was founded in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian Isidore Isou. Lettrism was inspired by..... More
