[Sweden – various places: various, 1869-1889]. Five works bound together, all FIRST EDITIONS. Henrik Gahn (1820-1874) invented the first antiseptics to be used in Sweden, which he called “Aseptin” and “Amykos”, the first being a secret preparation containing boric acid, used for preserving articles of food, which he patented in 1869; the second for use as a mouthwash and disinfectant. The eponymous firm based on his work, Henrik Gahn AB.....

Paris: Boubée & Cie. 1963. Octavo (19 x 14.5 cm.), 326 pages. Illustrated with forty-three figures and three maps, designed by Michelle Bory. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296). Errata slip laid-in. FIRST EDITION. One of the final published works of Roger Heim, noted mycologist and head of the Museum National d'Historie Naturalle. Heim is recognized for his descriptive and taxonomic studies of fungi and documentation of psycho-physiological effects of psilocybin.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Octavo, 234, [4] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book, following her popular Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving of 1877. Henderson and her husband John B. Henderson, Senator from Missouri, were wealthy land speculators and early real estate developers, first in St. Louis, and then in Washington D.C., where she was instrumental in creating the Meridian Hill neighborhood. While this book is not.....

New York: Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Co., 1924. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), iv, [1], 24-505, [10], [10] pages. Advertisements. Index. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Later edition, stated Revised and Enlarged. The Homeopathic Mentor was issued in its original version in 1956. Humphreys was the founder of the Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Company. Humphreys was the personal physician to Theron Tilden Pond, developer of Pond's Extract, derived from witch hazel, and.....

London: Simpkin & Marshall, Stationers' Court, 1861. Duodecimo (16 x 11 cm.), 61 pages. Illustrated frontispiece printed in blue and one chromolithograph plate. Publisher's advertisement. ~ Later printing, (originally published in 1857). This small book served as an advertisement for the author's services in restoring teeth with "Flexible Coralite Gums," which replaced traditional, and much less flexible gold or bone gums. Folding-flap frontispiece printed in blue depicts before and after.....

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.....

London: For Richard Wilkin, 1714. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), [16], 218, [13] pages. FIRST EDITION. “Mary Kettilby’s collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies, from a tasty “green-pease soop, without meat” to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth, for pickling.....

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]: Corrective Eating Society, Inc., 1917. 14 x 10.3 cm, unpaginated [22 pages]. A pamphlet extolling the health benefits of “correct eating” as discovered and defined by the self-described “prophet” of nutritional advancement, Eugene Christian (1860-1930). Christian healed himself through a diet of raw and natural foods, a practice further supported here with testimonials from eleven individuals, including a “middle aged woman”, “bank cashier”, and “suffrage worker”. R.W. Lockwood.....

Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas & Lathrops, 1856. Octavo, 151 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of commercial recipes for household and medicinal products, wines, perfumes, cosmetics and toiletries, soda water, spices, and more, with a special section at the rear explaining why they do not sell patent medicines, "the pill taking propensity, which a few years since was so general as to be called by foreigners an American nationalism...." A......

London: Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn, 1746. Duodecimo (19 x 15 cm.), xxxii, 398 pages; signatures: a12 b4 A1-Q12 R8. Head- and tail-pieces; initials. Complete with the “imprimatur” leaf. Imprimatur from the Royal College of Surgeons on verso of title-leaf. ~ The Second and Final Edition (a reprint of the first edition was issued in 1846). A classic work on diet and nutrition, discussing the quality, use, and.....