Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1909. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 289, [16] pages. Advertisements. Photographically illustrated. Fourth printing. Originally issued in 1904. While best known for The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Fannie Farmer had more than a passing acquaintance with issues of health, convalescence and medicine. Farmer suffered a debilitating stroke following high school, and struggled for years to regain her mobility. After her studies at the Boston Cooking.....

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1911. Octavo (19.5 x 13.25 cm.), 289, [24] pages. Advertisements. Photographically illustrated. Later Edition. Originally issued in 1904. While best known for The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Fannie Farmer had more than a passing acquaintance with issues of health, convalescence and medicine. Farmer suffered a debilitating stroke following high school, and struggled for years to regain her mobility. After her studies at the Boston Cooking.....

Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1867. Octavo, xxii, 670 pages. Second edition, revised and expanded. The second published work by the medical doctor and researcher, Jean Baptiste Fonssagrives, perhaps best known for his first work, Traité d'hygiène navale, (Treatise on Naval Hygiene), in which he took a look at the overall living conditions of French sailors, including their diet and quarters, and suggested a healthier living situation might produce a better fighting.....

New York: Newcomen Society, 1954. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15.5 cm.), 24 pages. Second printing. The Newcomen Society of North America was chartered in 1961, following the earlier establishment in 1923 of the Newcomen Society in England. The focus is on "material history, as distinguished from political history". This includes education, business, banking, railroads, utilities, insurance, & other enterprises contributing to the progress of society. Some oxidation to.....

[London: Macmillan, 1977]. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 412, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Published a year after the French original issued by Robert Laffont as Le Grande Cuisine Minceur, Les recettes de... (1976). A landmark work in the cuisine of dieting. Chef Michel Guérard rejects the idea that "slimming cuisine" is incompatible with haute cuisine. The book is part a manifesto on healthy cooking, and an examination.....

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1904. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 297 pages. Index. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged; originally issued in 1901. An interesting collection of recipes related to home care or home nursing. Contains seventy recipes not included in the first edition, as well as a "complete classification" of the recipes. I would be remiss not to mention the inclusion of the "Clam Frappé". In green cloth, gilt-titled on.....

New York: Published by Samuel Henry; [Printed by E. Low], 1814. Octavo (21 x 13 cm.), vi, [3], 10-393 pages (with page iv misprinted as page v). Illustrations (seven in color). "Index" is actually a table of contents (its alphabetic order approximate). List of subscribers ("Catalogue," pages [391]-393). Issued with the illustrations either colored or plain. The seven colored illustrations found here are the work of a later contributor. ~.....

Lowell, Mass: C.I. Hood, n.d. Small octavo (18 x 12 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. A later reprint, but still issued by the company. A small product book, with both recipes and remedies, from the makers of Hood' Saponaceous Tooth Powder and Hood's Sasparilla. Very near fine in publisher's printed wrappers.

New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1902. Small octavo (20 x 13 cm.), xvi, 244 pages. An early printing (the first was issued in 1901), of this influential work. "The keynote of this book is Proctitis, inflammation of the anal and rectal canals" (page xv). Much of this text appeared originally in various issues of Health (N.Y.) and Omega (N.Y.) between 1898 and 1900. Jamison was an 1878 graduate of the Medical.....

Boston: Joseph Burnett & Co.; [printed by] Forbes Co., 1878. Booklet in stapled, chromolithographed wrapper (11.5 x 7.5 cm.), 40 pages. Illustrated advertisements throughout, Title, date, and publication information from cover. ~ A single issue of an attractive little calendar and promotional booklet produced annually, usually under the title Burnett's Floral Handbook and Ladies Calendar, by the company to advertise its various patent medicines, flavoring extracts for cooking, and hair.....

New York: Orange Judd Comapny, 1903. Thick octavo, 506, [6] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. A survey of all aspects of tobacco, from history and trade through various varieties of leaf and their uses. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in handsome, bright and clean publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth.

Leipzig/Paris: chez Brockhaus/Schubart et Heideloff, 1829. Duodecimo, xvi, 330 pages. FIRST EDITION in FRENCH, translated from the second German edition, revised and corrected. Kreysig was physician to Frédéric Auguste King of the Saxons, from 1803 to 1828. His greatest contribution was to the art of diagnosis. Attractively bound in full calf with gilt decorated spine, red speckled edges. Early previous owner's name, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates thirteen copies, just.....

[New York]: F. M. Lupton, Publisher, 1889. The Leisure Hour Library, Vol. III, no 230. Small octavo in wrappers (18 x 12 cm.), 128 pages. FIRST EDITION. About equal parts cookbook and household medical guide. recipes are short, and in narrative form, and the book lacks introduction or other parts that might provide more context. Internally a bit age-toned, stapled, in printed wrappers, with some edgewear and staining, but near.....