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The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, which are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries; with their Descriptions and Their Uses, as proved by experience, embellished with Fifty-Four Coloured Plates

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Bungay, C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley : 1808

Seller ID: 698

1808 FAMILY HERBAL BY ENGLISH QUACK PHYSICIAN BOTANIST WITH 54 BEAUTIFUL HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF PLANTS. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 calf binding with marbled boards, gilt lines to spine, gilt black leather title to spine, signature of Rd Clatterbuck, Colchester on front paste-down, Partial ink inscribed list of contents on front endpaper, title page with no date, but plate facing page 137 engraved, "Publd. by Brightly Bungay 1808", xl, 376 pp, 54 finely colored engraved plates containing multiple plants. Corners bumped, wear to covers, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tig...
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Assimilative Memory or How to Attend and Never Forget

By: Loisette, A. [aka Marcus Dwight Larrowe]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. : 1896

Seller ID: 921

1896 FIRST EDITION GUIDE TO IMPROVING MEMORY BY CHARLATAN WHO DUPED MARK TWAIN. 7 1/4 inches tall hardcover, pebbled green binding, gilt author's name to cover, frontis portrait of author with tissue guard, 170 pp, publisher's advertisements. Fine in custom archival mylar cover. LOISETTE AND MARK TWAIN (Australian Mensa Magazine, TableAus, 2014): "In 1883, Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, began work on a game designed to teach his children to remember the names of the English monarchs. The game involved using the garden path around his home to spatially represent the relative reigns...
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Bier's Hyperemic Treatment in Surgery, Medicine, and the Specialties. A Manual of Its Practical Application: Illustrated

By: Meyer, Willy and Schmeiden, Victor

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders Co. : 1909

Seller ID: 779

1909 TREATISE ON HYPEREMIC TREATMENT (TOURNIQUETS AND HOT AIR) FOR ACUTE AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION--STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHS. 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, library pocket front paste-down, inscribed top of front flyleaf, Department of the Interior, Office of the Medical Director, 280 pages, 16 pages publisher's advertisements, original green cloth binding, gilt title on cover and spine, dedicated to Professor August Bier by the Authors. Many photographic illustrations demonstrating the application of tourniquets and hot air to the head, testicles, breast, spine, knee, and tuberculous lesions. PREFAC...
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La Mort, les Maladies, l'Intelligence, l'Heredite, Indiquees immediatement par l'analyse des empreintes des mains [Death, Diseases, Intelligence, Heredity, indicated immediately by analysis of handprints]

By: Muchery, Georges

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions du Chariot : 1928

Seller ID: 881

1928 TWO-VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON PALMISTRY, ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHS OF PALM PRINTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION OF DISEASE, INTELLIGENCE, AND HEREDITY. Two volumes, 10 inches tall, printed paper covers in glassine dustjackets, Vol. I Text, owner signature, mars 1942, to front flyleaf, 254 pp, illustrations in text; Vol. II, corner of front flyleaf and half-title excised, preserving mars 1942, 112 lithographic plates of handprints. Covers clean, bindings tight, pages clean and unmarked, plates bright and clean, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH. GEORGES MUCHERY (1892 - 1981) was an astrologer and...
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The Composite Man as Comprehended in Fourteen Anatomical Impersonations

By: Pratt EH;

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York and Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Co. : 1921

Seller ID: 182

UNCONVENTIONAL ILLUSTRATED HUMAN ANATOMY TEXT BY HOMEOPATH ORIGINATOR OF 'ORIFICIAL SURGERY'. 8 inches tall hardcover, 233 pages, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, 14 black & white and color plates; no dust jacket, very good. PREFACE: 'The object of these impersonations has been threefold. First, to render the study of anatomy sufficiently simple and novel to be attractive, in hopes thatit may be popu-larized; second, to secure recognition, on the part of those who heretofore have been inclined to overlook them, of the existence of man's spiritual parts as essential elements ...
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Princeps Morborum Acutorum Pleuritis Tractatus Novissimus, & singularis In VI. Partes comprehensus juxta Hippocratis mentem & Recentiorum theses Ad Praxim Medicam summopere necessarius

By: Verna, Giovanni Battista

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Venice, Laurentium Basilium : 1713

Seller ID: 727

1713 TREATISE ON PLEURISY BY DR. GIOVANNI VERA, WITH FOLDING PORTRAIT COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS OF AUTHOR AND OF PHILIPPO HERCULANO, DEDICATEE OF THE BOOK. 9 inches tall hardcover, full vellum binding, gilt red leather label to spine, title page, folding engraved portrait of dedicatee, Philip Herculano, frontis engraved folding portrait of author, 208 pp. Light browning to covers and pages, binding tight, unmarked, very good.
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The Human Body and its Connection with Man, Illustrated by the Principal Organs

By: Wilkinson JJG;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and Co. : 1851

Seller ID: 158

1851 SCARCE MYSTICAL TREATISE ON HUMAN BODY. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, Dedicated to Henry James, Sr [father of the novelist]. Two spots of insect abrasion on front cover, corners and edges of covers worn, 1 inch split to bottom of front joint, spine ends frayed, previous owner pencil signature to front free endpaper, scattered foxing to first and last pages, overall good +. In protective custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: 'Persons for the most part have no idea that the sciences belong to the great world in the first place,...
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Category: Alternative medicine

The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, which are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries; with their Descriptions and Their Uses, as proved by experience, embellished with Fifty-Four Coloured Plates

Assimilative Memory or How to Attend and Never Forget

Bier's Hyperemic Treatment in Surgery, Medicine, and the Specialties. A Manual of Its Practical Application: Illustrated

La Mort, les Maladies, l'Intelligence, l'Heredite, Indiquees immediatement par l'analyse des empreintes des mains [Death, Diseases, Intelligence, Heredity, indicated immediately by analysis of handprints]

The Composite Man as Comprehended in Fourteen Anatomical Impersonations

Princeps Morborum Acutorum Pleuritis Tractatus Novissimus, & singularis In VI. Partes comprehensus juxta Hippocratis mentem & Recentiorum theses Ad Praxim Medicam summopere necessarius

The Human Body and its Connection with Man, Illustrated by the Principal Organs