![ADVERTISING BROADSHEET] USE DR. MEYER’S CELEBRATED EYE WATER](/pictures/thumb/290023.JPG?v=1591219575)
Thibodaux, La. Meyer Drug Co., [c. 1913]. An advertising broadside for Dr. Meyer’s Eye Water, meant for relieving pain and irritation in infected eyes; a daily wash for the newly born, the young, old, and any who wish to prevent..... More
![ADVERTISING SIGN] C. &. T. HEADACHE TABLETS](/pictures/thumb/288900.JPG?v=1591218982)
Wellsville, Ohio: Calhoun & Thomas, [1906]. “Oh! My Head Aches”. Get C. & T. Headache Tablets. Advertising placard in card stock, from the Calhoun & Thomas Company c. 1906; the company was appropriately located in Wellsville. With light stain to..... More
New York: American Druggist, [1936]. Soft Cover. A clean copy of this catalogue. More
1971. Very Good. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titling. More
Chicago, New York, Toronto: Bauer & Black, [1908]. Early 20th century bunion plasters, advertised to drifters and families alike. Trifold instructional pamphlet, with advertisements in color and polyglot instructions. With two of the bunion plasters in their original packaging. Held..... More
[Cincinnati]: Self-published, [1892]. A price list with the products listed on the recto of each page, and most interesting advertisements on most of the versos. We especially like the color lithographic image of “Meredith’s Pure Malt Whiskey” -- for medicinal..... More
London: Printed for S. Baker, and J. Dodsley, 1772. Full Leather. The complete second volume, and only the second volume, of Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London, with twenty three chapters on various medical subjects; this..... More
Middletown, Conn. [c. 1915]. The receipt for a pair of lenses. With price typewritten on the blank section, and information written in pencil beneath it. Measuring about 14 x 21 cm. More
Atlanta, Georgia: A. K. Hawkes, 1891. Group of ephemeral items showing the gift of a ‘special assortment’ of optician’s wares from A. K. Hawkes Manufacturing Optician, presumably a marketing move to gain retail sellers of their goods. Receipt show the..... More
![TYPESCRIPT] SEX INSTRUCTION MANUAL. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. TEXT AND DIAGRAMS](/pictures/thumb/288564.JPG?v=1591218806)
NSFW. Well, that’s probably not true, but we rarely get the chance to say that, so we seized the moment. Eight pages of typescript accompanied by eight pages of numbered drawings of positions for intercourse (let’s try #8!), on very..... More
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Editeur, 1875. Hard Cover. Cinquieme Edition. Signed. In which M. Debay articulates the necessary conditions for having beautiful children, and supports the exercise of the “genital act” within marriage. Illustrations, including images of “monstrosities” -- two headed..... More
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1809. Full Leather. First American Edition. 8vo.; in full contemporary sheep with morocco label; viii, 9-612 pages; this is the second only, of two volumes; the front joint is well cracked but holding by the threads..... More
The Classics of Medicine Library, 1993. Full Leather. Nice copy bound in black leather with marbled endpapers. Top edge of gilt textblock has some spotting. Classics of Medicine material laid in. More
New York: B. Westermann & Co. | L. W. Schmidt, 1858. Hard Cover. First Edition. Previous owner’s blindstamp to a few pages of text. Textblock cracked in parts. Spot of discoloration to the front board, affecting the preliminaries. Embossed brown..... More
London: printed by E. G. for Richard Thrale, 1650. Small Quarto. Half Leather. Second Edition. [8], [1]-161, 164-270, [6], 3-[206], [4], 1-[44]. According to Wing’s collation, this copy appears to missing a few leaves including: 2 preliminary leaves; leaf B1..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute for G. G. and J. Robinson, London; by Adam Neill and Company, 1801. Half Leather. Volume V only of Andrew Duncan and Andrew Duncan’s Annals of Medicine, for the Year 1800. Exhibiting the latest..... More
Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1896. Hard Cover. A study on the practical examinations of the eye for doctors and students. Text in German, with a few text illustrations. Previous owner’s name on the title page, and institute bookplates on..... More
Paris: E. Dentu, 1875. 12mo. Quarter Leather. Signed by Debay. This copy Signed by the French military doctor and science writer. Roughly, this is the “Hygiene pleasures according to age, temperament and seasons”. Quarter leather over marbled boards... More
![ADVERTISING PAMPHLET; PROSEPCTUS] STAMMERERS SHOULD READ A BOOK, WHICH WILL BE SENT POST FREE,...](/pictures/thumb/288913.JPG?v=1591218985)
Birmingham: Hudson and Son, n.d. Folded pamphlet advertising the author’s works on stammering and its potential cures. Benjamin Beasley ran a school for stammerers in Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, organized ‘Speech Days,’ where successful graduates would give addresses to the..... More
![A SYSTEM OF SURGERY (Volume IV) [containing: DISEASES OF THE EYES, NOSE, LIPS, AND MOUTH]....](/pictures/thumb/285014.JPG?v=1591217402)
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1796. Octavo. Full Leather. Sixth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. An 18th century Edinburgh edition with a rather amusing ink inscription on the front pastedown: “Presented to __ by the Norfolk Humane Society in consideration of the..... More
Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Books, 1995. Full Leather. A nice copy, full brown leather tastefully stamped in gilt, with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. There is no previous owner bookplate in this..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Health Administration Press, 1982. Hard Cover. Clarence Rufus Rorem’s A Quest For Certainty: Essays on Health Care Economics. With no marks of any kind. Dog-earing to a few leaves. Turquoise cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine. More
Berlin: In der Schuppel’schen Buchhandlung, 1822. Half Leather. A copy of Weller’s Die Krankenheiten des Menschlichen Auges, or ‘the diseases of the eye.’ Text in German. Five folding plates, four of which are in color, bound in at the rear..... More
![THE J. B. L. CASCADE [Advertising Pamplet]. Charles A. Tyrell](/pictures/thumb/273884.JPG?v=1591216151)
New York: Tyrell’s Hygenic Institute, c. 1915. Stapled Pamphlet. An advertising pamphlet for Charles Tyrell’s “J. B. L. Cascades” -- which must have been devices for administering enemas. “A thorough and satisfactory method of administering the internal bath for the..... More
![MEDICINE] WOMAN: HER DISEASES AND REMEDIES. A SERIES OF LETTERS TO HIS CLASS. M. D. Charles D....](/pictures/thumb/295144.JPG?v=1646769788)
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854. Full Leather. 8vo.; full calf binding with morocco title label, 672 pages, including the Index; followed by a Catalogue of Blanchard & Lea’s Medical and Surgical Publications. there is a contemporary previous owner name on..... More