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[Chicago: American Cereal Co, 1898. Booklet, stapled in wrapper (14 x 9 cm.), 15, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout in chromolithograph and chromotypograph. Chromolithographs by "Forbes New York Boston Chicago"--Page [16], with lithographer's device (gothic letter F). Title and publication data from wrappers. FIRST EDITION (though some records indicate 1895, this is erroneous, and likely based on a trademark statement, "copyright, 1894, 1895, The American Cereal Co., Frolie, trade mark". Advertisement for Quaker Oats breakfast cereal featuring anthropomorphic grasshoppers dressed in pantomime or commedia dell'arte costumes. Nursery rhymes in verse. Fine. [OCLC locates nine copies].
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The Frolie Grasshopper Circus
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The National Malnutrition
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Milwaukee, WI: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1943. Octavo, 119 pages. Later printing. "This book was written because 999 out of every 1000 people lack proper nutrition." The author, one of American's foremost authorities on deficiency diseases, clarifies what our dietary needs are and how to satisfy them, why we need vitamins and minerals, and what can be done about widespread deficiency diseases. Medical studies cited throughout, including reference to studies exploring non-Western diets, including Japanese and Native American. Good copy in slightly worn dust jacket with small tear.
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La callipédie, traduite du poème latin
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Amsterdam et Paris: chez Durand & Pissot, 1749. Octavo (16.5 x 10 cm.), [1] f., 203 pages. ~ FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH & FIRST BILINGUAL EDITION. The French prose translation printed in roman type on versos facing the Latin poem, in italic type, on rectos. Originally published in Leiden in 1655, the poem, on the "art of producing beautiful children," was the only published work of Quillet, an abbot and physician of free-thinking tendencies. The work was an unexpected and long-lived success, widely translated and frequently reprinted. Two further French translations were published before 1800. Quillet's poem, in four books, presents a "curious mixture of modern science and ancestral prejudices, Galenic medicine, already contested at this period, astrological convictions, and racism pure and simple. As the title states, it deals with producing beautiful children, in order to produce superior citizens for the state.... Quillet was a practitioner of the new, more empirical school of medicine" (Taussig).…
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