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.

What to do if it’s catching

A public health pamphlet from the early 1930s 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.

The household medical advisor

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.

Sur l'Appréhension du choléra-morbus

A scarce and appealing provincial pamphlet from the city of Troyes in north-east France

The fabric of the human body

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.

Bishop of Emesa (fl AD 400)

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.

The Bath waters: Their uses and effects

Presentation copy of the first edition of Tunstall's work touting the hydrotherapeutic benefits of the waters of Bath, England.

Apicio De re coquinaria

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.

Sistema idropatico-pratico e trattamento

Second edition (first ca. 1853) of this scarce treatise on the medical use of cold water and bathing, by Clemente Grillo.

Vouex d'un Patriote sur la Medecine en France.

This monograph by 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.

Marienbad et ses différents moyens curatifs dans les maladies chroniques

This 19th-century monograph offers a discussion of the various cures available at the famous 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, Juannini studied medicine and surgery at the University of Pavia before relocating to Madrid to be physician to Juan José of Austria.

Koch Büch. Worin alles So zür Küchenmisterey gehörig zü finden

This German manuscript cookbook offers instructions for dishes using game, various types of sausage, and many kinds of fish.

Phytognomonica

This illustrated herbal, by 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.

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.

Figure Ginnastiche Femminili & Maschili

Gymnastics exercises for girls and boys with diagrams in a pair of Italian pamphlets from the 1890s.

First Aid in the Home

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.

De Funeribus Romanorum

First illustrated edition of this important collection of texts taken from ancient authors concerning the funeral rites, burial places, etc., of antiquity.

W. D. & H. O. Wills Cigarette Cards

These three sets of 50 color and printed letterpress cards were produced by Wills out of Bristol, one of the first tobacco companies to issue sets of cards

Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops

A short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops: the nature of the distempers they cure. Published and sold by virtue of the King's letters patents under the great seal of Great Britain.