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[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright) but probably issued in 1931). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 24 pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Slight edge wear & soiling, soft vertical crease throughout, internal toning, otherwise very good.
Book ix in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health."
"What are some of the incentives to produce abortion? An unmarried woman seduced under false representations of a man who feels no responsibility for his own offspring, suffers alone all the shame and contumely of the act, and is tempted to cause miscarriage to shield her good name ..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

London: Burroughs Wellcome, 1912. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4"), 262 & [2] pages followed by several unused leaves for memoranda & 12 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout (some in color), & two maps of Atlantic City. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover & decorated with the Burroughs Wellcome Unicorn trade mark. All edges gilt, decorated endpapers.
Covers spotted, soiled & rubbed, spine a bit sunned, sporadic modest foxing, otherwise good or better.
Contents include: Anglo-Saxon leechcraft; The Wellcome Materia Medica Farm; Historical Medical Equipment; Equipment List and Formulary of Burroughs Wellcome Products.

London: Published by J. Francis, printed by James Holmes, 51 issues bound in gilt-lettered one quarter calf & plum cloth, numbers 271 to 322, January 5 to December 28, 1833. Quarto (11" x 9"), 904 & viii pages (continously paginated), with illustrated title page & 4 small illustrations at page 764. Text in three columns.
Binding lightly rubbed, spine faded, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good.
An early volume of this auspicious journal which was published continuously from 1828 to 1921.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1929, First edition. 4to, 363 pp, profusely illustrated "with photographs and drawings of old and new bridges of many lands" Publisher's gilt-lettered blue buckram, top edge gilt. Trace of wear at spine extremities & corners, internally slightly toned, otherwise Near Fine In 1946 the author joined with Othmar Amman to form the renowned engineering firm of Ammann and Whitney The firm was responsible for numerous innovative designs including the main terminal at Dulles International Airport which is one of the most recognizable structures in the world.

190 Chatham Square, New York: [R.L. Wolcott], no date, ca. 1861 - 1865. Illustrated broadsheet handbill printed on thin paper, 8vo (9.25" x 4.5"), 2 pp., with small woodcut of a demon. OCLC currently locates two, apparently variants (University of Rochester; Connecticut Historical Society).
Irregularly trimmed, moderate edge wear & toning, otherwise very good.
"WHEREAS, there is now in existence throughout the length and breadth of our land, a Rebellion which has arrayed itself against the very Constitution of man, undermined the health of the nation, and assuming still vaster proportions, threatens to to sap the very vitals of the country, and evermore destroy its peace and happiness.
And Whereas, these demons of disease, whose name is legion, coming in the dread forms of Headache, Toothache, Neuralgia, Catarrh, and Weak Nerves, are now invading our very houses and firesides, inflicting Pain and Misery upon all who they track:
Therefore, it is ordered and prescribed to all suffering from… Read More

New York: Tilden & company, 1852. First edition. 8vo, 28 & [4] pp, with engraved frontis. Original printed wraps, sewn, with an illustration of distilling equipment on the rear wrap. Romaine; p. 135.
Soiled, foxed & spotted, modest edge wear including a couple of small losses, upper wrap partially separated, previous owner's name in pencil at front wrap, label pasted in at the last page of text apparently correcting an error in the address of a retailer, good or better. Formed in 1847, the company was the family business of Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York & 1876 Democratic nominee for president. Their most successful product, known as "Tilden's Extract," was extracted from cannabis indica &, as described on p. 21, "specially recommended for tetanus, hydrophobia, neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, epidemic cholera, , convulsions, hysteria, mental depression, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage." OCLC finds 9 copies under 4 accession numbers, all but 2 with 28 pages, apparently omitting the final 4 pages… Read More

Boston: David Clapp & Son, Printers, 1881. First edition. 12mo, 54 pages. Printed paper wraps, sewn.
Library of Congress deposit copy with rubber-stamped mark at the title page, "Q889" in pencil on the upper cover, wraps with a couple of small chips, moderately soiled, spine partially perished, Good or better. The author was the brother of noted photographer Isaiah West Taber. Charles Taber went west from Massachusetts with the Gold Rush and arrived in San Francisco in 1850 He tried his hand at mining, captained a ferry boat between Sacremento and San Francisco, and eventually became an artist and author. In addition to other titles relating to climate and geology, he wrote "Rhymes from a Sailor's Journal."

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, (1965). First edition. 8vo, xii, 500 pp., illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Modest shelf wear, text block beginning to slip at the top of the spine, otherwise very good in price-clipped dust jacket, a bit toned & soiled, with edge wear including a couple of small losses, good or better.
"Includes material on Alphonese Bertillon, Scotland Yard, Adolf Beck, Doctor Crippen, Bernard Spilsbury, Marie Lafarge, Marie Besnard, Sacco-Vanzetti, St Valentine's Day Massacre, among other topics." ~OCLC.

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 24 pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good.
The first in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss who was the president of the Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education.
"SEX is SEX: - And the operation of it is the biggest force in LIFE. Abnormalities in its expression are perhaps mostly the result of supersensitiveness , due to retcence and repression; there is nothing wrong in proper expression of SEX ..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co; New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928. First edition thus. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), xi, 410 & 20 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth. The final 20 pages comprise an inserted catalogue dated 1938 for other titles in the series
Slight edge wear & soiling, offsetting & foxing at endpaers & pastedowns, otherwise very good
A title in the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method series providing a translation of previously published essays and lectures

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 21 & [3] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good.
Book viii in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health." Includes a page titled "To Cut Off Viscious Families" on the 1927 Supreme Court decision approving sterilization.
"Of all the diseases to which flesh is the heir, none bring so much misery, moral and physical, as those called sexual or venereal..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

No place: "privately published for use and study by scholars in the fields of anthropology, and the social sciences; by physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists," (1957). First edition. 8vo, 130 pp including numerous, frequently graphic illustrations. Publisher's red paper over boards lettered in black on the upper cover. Bottom corners lightly bruised, occasional minor foxing, previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown, a very good copyThis copy from the library of Simon Rulin Breusch, MD, who was the "major historical source and advisor for the HealthSciences Museum Foundation of the Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society." "It is in this very un-Chinese book about the Chinese that an attempt is made to throw some clear and serious light on the world's oldest, continuous civilization This book is un-Chinese in that its aim is to go quickly to the heart of the subject, and to present the essence of Chinese Erotica." ~Excerpted from the Introduction

New York: David McKay Company, (1970) Fourth printing. Octavo (8.75" x 6"), ix & 342 pages. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with brief wear at the top of the spine.
"... a unique, lively, utterly candid guide to the facts of life that not only brings so-called "unmentionable" aspects of sex out into the open, but explores, explains, defines, and clarifies the almost unlimited range of human sexual behavior - and tells how actually to utilize your own physical capabilities to fullest capacity in order to achieve the greatest sexual satisfaction possible ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Boston, Massachusetts: [S.N.], "Reprinted on the Occasion of the XIIIth International Physiological Congress, 1929," this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing at the ffep. 8vo (9" x 5.75"), xl & 280 pages, with frontis portraits, charts, & tables. Original light brown paper over boards backed in dark brown cloth with a printed title label on the spine, in printed dust jacket. Laid-in is the programme for the New York Academy of Medicine's "Stated Meeting, October 5, 1933" [in] "Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Publication of William Beaumont's "Experiments and Observations." (Bifolium, 8vo, 4 pp., on thick card stock, with photograph of the Chester Harding portrait of Beaumont tipped to the upper cover, with ink presentation & illegible signature).
Trace of shelf wear, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, rubbed & browned mostly at the spine, soiled, with tears, losses & archival tissue repairs on the verso. Programme with edge wear & browning, good… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1892). Second edition. Tall octavo (9.5" by 6.5"), xxviii & 916 pages including illustrations plates, & diagrams. Publisher's olive cloth lettered in black.
Small split at the lower joint, stain on back cover, edges & extremities lightly rubbed, previous owner's name in ink at first blank page, otherwise very good.
"No pains have been spared to make this one of the most complete books of its kind. The numerous plates and figures thoroughly elucidate the more difficult points of the text and references are made to all the best French, German, and Italian treatises on the veterinary science. One of my special aims has been to adapt this book to the English-speaking reader. It contains valuable information for the practitioner, the student, the horseman, and the breeder."
 ~Excerpted from the translator's preface.

New York: The Claremont Printing Co., 1922. 24mo (6" x 4.75"), [1] & 44 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps.
Lightly toned & soiled, otherwise near fine.
Features important information Including "Some Facts the Young Man About to Marry Should Know," "Sexual Congress After Marriage," The Mistakes of the Bride-Groom," "Mistakes of the Honey-Moon," "Why Girls Are the Home Makers," "The Immorality of the Marriage Relation," and much more.
Dr. S[amuel] Dana Hubbard (1869 - 1937), dermatologist, was a member of the New York Board of Health for 40 years where he led efforts to expose quacks and investigated violations of medical practice acts. Additionally, he published numerous pamphlets presenting 
"facts" related to sex, motherhood, marriage, etc. Of note, Dr. Hubbard provided "scientific and medical facts" for at least two movies including "The Naked Truth, The story of a fellow who sowed his Wild Oats" and "Some Wild Oats," both of which are promoted in this pamphlet.

New York: The Claremont Printing Co., 1922. 24mo (6" x 4.75"), [1] & 28 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps.
Slight edge wear, light toning, otherwise near fine.
Features important information Including "Needs of the Expectant Mother," "Reasons Why a Mother Should Nurse Her Baby," "Whipping: Some Ideas About Training Children Humanely," "Developing Truthfulness," and much more.
Dr. S[amuel] Dana Hubbard (1869 - 1937), dermatologist, was a member of the New York Board of Health for 40 years where he led efforts to expose quacks and investigated violations of medical practice acts. Additionally, he published numerous pamphlets presenting 
"facts" related to sex, motherhood, marriage, etc. Of note, Dr. Hubbard provided "scientific and medical facts" for at least two movies including "The Naked Truth, The story of a fellow who sowed his Wild Oats" and "Some Wild Oats," both of which are promoted in this pamphlet.

Oslo: H. Aschehoug; London: Kegan Paul, Trench; Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz; Paris: Societe D'Edition Les Belles Lettres; Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1951. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), xiii & 163 pages, illutrated (plates, maps). Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket.
Edges lightly rubbed, couple of corners bruised, text browned, binding cracking at p. 64/65 (still secure), otherwise good or better in price-clipped dust jacket browned (particularly at the spine), with edge wear including nicks & small losses, still good or so.
The author was an architect & archaeologist who notes in the preface that "After Rome Salona is the most important urban area on European soil for the studies in archaeology of early Christianity ..."

Cleveland, Ohio: Howe Machine Company, printed by Russells' American Steam Printing House of New York, ca. 1868. 8vo, [1] - 30, [10] pp., with illustrations from woodcuts. Original pictorial paper wraps. Romaine/ American Trade Catalogs, p. 338. Moderately foxed & soiled, otherwise very good. The final 10 pages present 12 Howe sewing machines, each illustrated, with specifications & pricing.

Poughkeepsie, [New York]: Journal & Eagle Printing Establishment, 1846. first edition. Octavo (9" x 5.5"), 40 pages. Publisher's printed paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates 9 physical copies as of 11/12/2023.
Lightly toned, foxed & soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good.
The upper wrap incorrectly provides year of publication as 1845, the title page correctly indicates 1846.
William H. Grant, Chief Engineer, New York Department of Public Parks, Bureau of Civil and Topographical Engineering, was instrumental in the construction of Central Park.