Binding:  Publisher's apple green paper–covered boards in original matching slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above: lower front and back edges each with tiny bump, extremities showing very slight rubbing, slipcase with edges rubbed and a few small spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations in French. Pages and plates clean. Really in quite remarkable condition.  (30574)

Provenance:  With ownership stamp of early 20th-century American archaeologist Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock on front free endpaper.

Binding: Navy blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and blind ruling on spine, decorative foliate frames on covers in blind. Binder's label of Edmonds & Remnants, London, on rear pastedown.

•  Palau 21943; Sabin 2771; Nicaraguan National Bibliography 1476.   Binding as above: gently rubbed with tiny tissue patches applied to weak areas of bookcloth, text slightly cocked, front hinge repaired and a few preliminary leaves reattached with long–fiber tissue and wheat starch paste. Light age-toning with some foxing, most notably around plates; one leaf with small marginal hole, a few corners creased, some leaves with evidence in margins of hasty opening.  (36298)

•  American Imprints 5859.   Publisher's quarter red cloth shelfback with drab paper on boards and paper label to spine; spine cloth chipped at top (3/4" missing). Ex–social club library; with 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpapers, no other markings. Small piece of front free endpaper torn away. Uncut copy. Clean.  (28077)

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 7007. Original light boards covered with marbled paper. Back cover and two leaves gnawed by a rodent, with loss of paper. (3512)

•  Wheeler Gift 1320.   Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; spines and edges chipped, vol. I sunned and vol. III slightly darkened, vol. III front wrapper torn with old tape repairs. Signatures unopened; some mild age-toning and occasional spots of foxing. Vol. I with final signature and plates starting to separate. Important, and unusual in original wrappers.  (40236)

Posthumous second edition in English, “translated from the French, with notes and engravings, illustrative and supplementary, by Andrew Ure.”

Uncut, partially unopened copy.

•  Uncut, partially unopened copy. Publisher's quarter cloth with paper covered boards; some discoloration to cloth, light chipping to board edges. Ex–social club library: paper label at top of spine, 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A clean copy with the plates good and crisp; as noted above, an uncut, partially unopened copy.  (27388)

Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only eight U.S. holdings.

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 19346.100.   Publisher's rose paper wrappers, rebacked in paper wrapper edges chipped and hinges (inside) reinforced. Half-title and title-page institutionally rubber-stamped, front pastedown with institutional bookplate and early inked numeral, half-title with small inked ownership inscriptions. Signatures unopened, edges untrimmed; pages age-toned throughout, some with a little foxing; a nice copy. Now housed in a neat rose-maroon cloth clamshell case with gilt-stamped leather title-label.  (25268)

Provenance:  Title-page, rear free endpaper, and rear pastedown rubber-stamped “Ex libris Augustini Mueller.” Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29998.   19th-century quarter brown sheep, marbled paper–covered sides in a Spanish wave and shell vein pattern; spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, blind-tooled decorative motif in center, and small gilt roll bands. Binding moderately rubbed overall, more so at edges, extremities, and joints; light to moderate foxing, one page with small area of tiny ink splatters in outer margin; large Mueller rubber-stamp as noted. A sound, more than serviceable copy of this interesting work.  (40072)

These items showcase advertisements, design, and packaging from four different drug companies of the period. Six packages come from S.W. Gould & Brothers of Malden, MA; they are offered in similarly designed, differently colored wrappers displaying the contents’ medicinal names, common names, and curative properties, along with the blazoned promise of their being “Always Fresh and Reliable.” The horsemint was sold by Allaire, Woodward, & Co. of Peoria, IL, and the “Initial Line” chestnut leaves, “loose pressed,” were sent forth from S.B. Penick & Co. Crude Drugs, based in NYC, Asheville, Chicago, and Jersey City. (Penick & Co. claimed to be the first producer of hermetically sealed botanical drugs of uniform medicinal strength “untouched by human hands”; see The Pharmaceutical Era, vol. 49, p. 132). The Mine Safety Appliances Co., which is still in business, supplied the package of ten ammonia inhalants, with the directions for use on the back of the box offering advice by way oftwo illustrations.

The era represented here is remembered as a great one for “patent medicines,” being typically manufactured compounds touting their variously scientific, exotic, or modern “secret” formulas; but these productions represent and serve a counter-thread in popular medical self- and family care — a desire and a market fornatural, pure, familiar, and even “traditional” curatives.

•  Gould herbs with printed paper wrappers and others in printed boxes, all but two later wrapped in plastic to better contain the contents, with some starting to unfold; some wrappers faded and rubbed but all generally intact. PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS NOT INTENDED FOR CONSUMPTION, although the herbs still bear a pleasant scent! A multipurpose educational gathering of items more commonly found individually as loners. (37294)

•  Not in Palau. Original yellow printed wrappers, removed from a nonce volume with stab holes in the inner margins; inside wrappers with a short closed tear and a little shallow chipping, light soiling and a few stray marks. Fold mark down the center and traces of soiling on the top edges.  (9045)