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Mon docteur. Traité de médecine et d’Hygiène.
This French encyclopedic home reference work includes three chromolithographic manikins, each with numerous flaps, highlighting the male and female anatomy as a whole, and an additional manikin illustrating the female reproductive organs and pregnancy.
Educational exhibit of cocoa and chocolate
This book, and its boxed “Educational Exhibit,” were created for public schools to allow teachers to demonstrate the transformation of the cocoa seeds from the raw material to the breakfast cocoa and chocolate, from Walter Baker & Co., 1916.
Tractat von der aller Fuertreflichsten und kraeftigsten Artzney wider allerley Gifft
The second edition revised (1598; the first edition appeared in the same city in 1589) of this book describing the remarkable mystical and medicinal powers of the bezoar.
A public health pamphlet from the early 1930's offering practical advice and information on how germs spread, rules for semi- and complete isolation, household hints, and first aid in the home.
Eckels' anatomical aid and A new principle in embalming
This is the first edition of a color anatomical aid with several movable flaps produced specifically for the use of embalmers. A companion volume, A New Principle in Embalming, introduces the embalmer to the use and benefits of ‘Osmotone.’
Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus
Our edition is of this classic novel is an 1856 London imprint, published by the Parlour Library. The purchase complements our 2019 Bibliography Week lecture, “‘The Horrors of My Secret Toil’: What Frankenstein Demands of Curators.”
Behind the scenes in a restaurant: A study of 1017 women restaurant employees
This fascinating report published the results of a study conducted by The Consumers’ League of New York City which reveals the absence of laws applicable to ca. 20,000 female restaurant workers not covered under The New York State Labor Law.
The human eye and its auxiliary organs
This first English edition (ca. 1896) of this slim introduction to the anatomy of the eye makes use of a movable model on the rear paste-down, incorporating a number of flaps.
Published circa 1900, this home medical aid is an example of the popular early medical works devoted to the promotion of health, hygiene, and happiness in the home.
The doctor in the home and Sexual diseases
This illustrated home medical guide published ca. 1929 was aimed at a female audience and accompanied by two supplementary pamphlets of anatomical plates of the human body and reproductive organs, and by a third short pamphlet on sexual diseases.
The fabric of the human body : an annotated translation
De humani corporis fabrica, published in Latin in 1543 and 1555, is perhaps the most important book printed in the West in the history of anatomy, revolutionizing anatomy with its detail, insight and exquisite imagery.
Nemesius’ De natura hominis was responsible for advancing the medieval belief that mental processes were localized in the ventricles of the brain.
Traité des maladies des femmes en couche avec la méthode de les guérir
First edition of this work on childbirth and delivery by the well-respected physician and accoucheur Joseph Raulin. Raulin (1708-84), physician-in-ordinary to the King and a fellow of the London Royal Society.
The Bath waters: Their uses and effects in the cure and relief of various chronic diseases
Presentation copy to Henry Lawson, Esq. of the first edition of Tunstall's work touting the hydrotherapeutic benefits of the waters of Bath, England.
This 2013 facsimile of the 860 AD manuscript in the Vatican transmitting Apicius’ de re coquinaria was acquired to complement our own 830 AD manuscript of the text, sometimes referred to as the oldest cookbook in the West.
Sistema idropatico-pratico e trattamento delle malattie coll'acqua fredda
Second edition (first ca. 1853) of this scarce treatise on the medical use of cold water and bathing, by Clemente Grillo, physician and member of the religious order of the Ordine ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Dio in Naples.
Vouex d'un Patriote sur la Medecine en France.
This monograph by the noted physician François Thiery was written in the year of revolution, 1789, when all facets of French life came under revision and reform.
Aristotle’s Masterpiece: The works of Aristotle, in four parts
The title of this book, a best-selling sex manual and guide to childbirth first published in 1684, may be familiar to James Joyce fans: Leopold Bloom rifles through a copy at a Dublin bookstall in Ulysses (1922).
Marienbad et ses différents moyens curatifs dans les maladies chroniques
This 19th-century monograph adds to our strengths in balneology and offers a discussion of the various cures available at the famous Czech spa town of Marienbad.
Het Vingerschrift in een eenhandig Alphabet
This 3rd issue lithographic pamphlet published in Rotterdam offers a pictorial introduction to one-fingered sign language.
Carta Escrita al muy noble aretino, el Doctor Don Francisco Redi
Born Giovanni Battista Giovannini in Milan, Juannini studied medicine and surgery at the University of Pavia before relocating to Madrid to be physician to Juan José of Austria, the son of Philip IV.
This German manuscript cookbook offers instructions for dishes using game, various types of sausage, and many kinds of fish, including pike, eel and crayfish.
This illustrated herbal, by the Neapolitan natural scientist and polymath Giambattista Della Porta, offers thirty-two very beautiful woodcuts illustrating the botanical Doctrine of Signatures.
Il cioccolato: trattenimento ditirambico
In the spring of 2017, we acquired an extremely rare first edition of this text on chocolate comprised of two parts: a dithyrambic poem followed by thirty pages of scholarly annotations.
Figure Ginnastiche Femminili & Maschili
Gymnastics exercises for girls and boys with diagrams in a pair of Italian pamphlets from the 1890s.
This pamphlet series is comprised of a set of twelve practical guides for the home, by one of the foremost first aid lecturers in the country.
Caelii Apitii summi adulatricis medicinæ artificis
This is the first critical edition of the Apicius text, as well as the first cookbook printed in Switzerland.
First illustrated edition of a collection of text on ancient funeral rites.
W. D. & H. O. Wills Cigarette Cards
Three sets of letterpress cards produced by Wills out of Bristol, one of the first tobacco companies to issue sets of cards.
Ausführliche Abhandlung über die Kuhpocken
This early nineteenth-century first edition by Friedrich Benjamin Osiander is one of the earliest works in German on cowpox and vaccination.
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