Medicine, Science & Technology
coil and static club, medicine, electro-therapeutics, science & technology
New York, NY: [1900]. A single-fold brochure announcement of a medical society Monell was forming, called the Coil and Static Club, whose purpose was to "carry out a practical plan for keeping an up-to-date revision of clinical methods and new work constantly at the command of all physicians who use.....
Price: $85.00
Architecture, Domestic, correspondence, 1st edition
Boston: James R Osgood and Company, 1874. 314 page book, with gilt stamped covers, 1st edition. The book compiles forty-three (43) letters between an architect and his friends. These letters "are composed of hints and suggestions relating to to building of homes... [and] aim to give practical information to those.....
Price: $65.00
Cigarette Smoking,Tobacco,Nicotine,Addiction,Public Health,Sociology
New York, New York: 1932. A passionate attack on cigarette smoking, highlighting its addictive nature and detrimental health effects, published in 1932: "Not one person in a thousand knows anything about the evils of this habit ... Perhaps no campaign has been more insidious" (p.1). Focuses on corporate greed, birth.....
Price: $175.00
Periodicals, Parapsychology, ESP, Psychology, Paranormal Abilities
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1939 and 1961. Vol. III, Nos. 1 and 2, of The Journal of Parapsychology, an academic journal exploring the the paranormal and psychic from a purely scientific and academic perspective. No. 2 is the first reprint from 1961. These issues featuring lengthy discussions of.....
Price: $125.00
Remedy, Podiatry
Philadelphia: Rhoads & Harris, Wholesale Druggists, [1900]. In small printed across the top of the page "magna est veritas et praevalebit" followed by The Miraculous Cure for Corns. A narrative from the inventor follows on how the cure was invented and how a corn can negatively impact one's life. Followed.....
Price: $65.00
California, tourism, travel, San Francisco, farallon island
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1910. 219 pp, green gilt stamped cloth over board covers with applied litho. B&W illustrations and plates, 68 in total. This is a travel tourism book for the state of California. The author asserts that "California possesses many of the charms that we are accustomed.....
Price: $110.00
FCC,Communications,Radio,Public Domain,Broadcast Monopolies
New York, New York: Peoples Radio Foundation, 1948. A monograph on the state of radio communications in America by Eugene Konecky (1898-1978), an activist and writer who dedicated his career to toppling broadcast monopolies. With chapter titles such as "Swastika Stations" and "Democracy or Dollar Dials", the book aims to.....
Price: $175.00
Railroads, Wood Engraving, Sanitariums, Springs and Healing Waters, Scenic Views
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Jas. W. Nagle, 1880. A Victorian tourist's guide to the lakes of central and western New York, notable for its over sixty (60) sweeping wood-engraved scenic views and maps of the region, most of which are half or full-page. The guide is broken into eight major sections, each.....
Price: $250.00
Public Health,Sex Education in the Classroom,Public Schools,Health Education
New York, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1951. A comprehensive description of the "program of education in human relations, including sex relations, in the public schools of San Diego, California" (foreword). Describes the mission of the program, which is to ground sex education into health education for teens, and.....
Price: $200.00
legal, transportation, shipping, letterhead, government
Hamburg, Germany: March 12, 1872 - April 29, 1872. This document is the English translation of a German document which was the "Adjustment of the Average" for the ship 'The Messenger' which was under Captain Waldo Hill (1814-1888) control and traveled from Bakers Island, MA, to Hamburg, Germany. The trip.....
Price: $125.00
circular, medicine, health & welfare, charity, National Surgical Institute
Indianapolis, IN: June 1, 1869. A circular advertisement for the offices of H. R. Allen, an orthopedic surgeon, oculist and aurist who had a practice in Indianapolis, IN. The advertisement focuses on the solicitation of new patients, particularly the poor and asks the reader to "be so kind as to.....
Price: $95.00
dental health, toothland puppet show, medicine, child welfare
Chicago, IL: Good Teeth Council for Children, INC, 1940. 31 pp. booklet aimed at encouraging primary grade age children to take care of their teeth. The story and the character of Jimmy Chew, a sixth year molar, are based on the Toothland Puppet Show. The booklet starts with a young.....
Price: $75.00
religion, christ, shakers, theology, revelation, church
Preston, OH: 1900. 56 pgs, brown wrappers. Henry B. Bear was a Millerite - a person who believed in William Miller's teachings that Second Advent of Christ was coming in 1843-1844. Bear became disenchanted with Millers teachers and eventually joined the Ohio Shaker Community. He published this book to spread.....
Price: $350.00
Public Health,Family and Childhood Diseases,Pneumonia
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1921. A guide to preventing and recognizing the symptoms of pneumonia for families and the general public. Mentions measles, influenza, pregnancy and childbirth, and surgical operations where chloroform is given as possible instances that may cause pneumonia. Advises patients to seek a......
Price: $175.00
trade catalogue, general store, medicine
Reading, MA: [1886-1887]. A small booklet which is the catalogue of items sold by Henry W. Plummer, who had a business in Reading, MA where he made and sold a variety of items. According to the catalogue he sold a variety of extracts (flavoring and handkerchief), toilet articles such as.....
Price: $150.00
Sex Education, Public Health, Venereal Diseases
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Department of Health, 1924. Published by the Chicago Department of Health, "Everybody's Problem" aims to educate the general public about the importance of avoiding venereal disease and epidemics. Public health and a duty to one's community is emphasized. Profusely illustrated, the booklet includes images of cherubic children.....
Price: $125.00
Native American History, Kaw Nation, Oklahoma
Washington, D.C. 1885. Typewritten letter from the commissioner of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Hiram Price, officially appointing L.M. Hutchinson, M.D. as the Physician at Osage and Kaw Agency, "to serve at Kaw reservation, at a compensation of $1200". Price (1814-1901) was commissioner from 1881 until.....
Price: $250.00
Septicemia, New York Department of Corrections
1898. Offprint of the May 1898 issue of the "Medical Examiner", reprinting a paper read before the New York Medico-Surgical Society by Dr. J. Blake White, "Visiting Surgeon to the Department of Correction, New York". Within, White advocates for the use of Viskolein in the treatment of sepsis, pyaemia, and.....
Price: $100.00
Osteopathy, Medicine
Burlington, IA: [1905]. A 2 1/2" x 4" appointment reminder or scheduling card. This particular patient seemingly saw the osteopath three days a week for a prolonged period. Of interest is the Seven Don't on the reverse. They include Don't think and talk about your ailments, Don't over-eat, or eat.....
Price: $50.00
Public Health,Pneumonia,Design,Black Humor
Baltimore, Maryland: State Department of Maryland, 1940s. A stark visual reminder of the dangers pneumonia and other pulmonary disease pose to the general public, published by the State Department of Maryland as a public health warning: "Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Influenza are at present responsible for 14 per cent of all.....
Price: $450.00
science, chemistry
New York: Robinson, Pratt, and Co., 1843. 420 pp. Leather cover, illustrations, index in back of book. "Illustrated by numerous engravings and designed for the use of schools and academies." The author intends to "explain the elements and doctrines of the science in sufficient detail." Book is broken into four.....
Price: $28.00
natural history, science, microscopes
London: Herbert Ingram and Co, 1855. 457 pp. Green blind embossed gilt cover, frontispiece, illustrated with approximately 500 engravings, 15 plates, 23 pages at the end contain advertising. The book contains information about the microscope and the history, use, directions, and specimens. 9" x 5 1/2" Wear on cover, spine.....
Price: $45.00
circular, medicine, bronchitis
New York, NY: [1880]. A circular for Fellows' Hypophosphites, a tonic produced by James I. Fellows, meant to help with "some forms of Bronchitis". The circular was directed towards physicians and provided information on dosing. A patient was suppose to increase each dose until they "experiences a slight nervous sensation;.....
Price: $100.00
Sex Education,Male Puberty,Celebrity Bodybuilders,Dating Advice,Pickup Artists , ABAA-RBMS-2023
n.pl. Joe Weider, 1959. A booklet published by Joseph Weider, celebrity bodybuilder and self-styled "Trainer of the Stars", giving young men dating advice. Very much in the same vein as VH1's "Pickup Artist" reality television series, the booklet offers impressionable teen boys advice for how to "get" the girl of.....
Price: $150.00