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HEALTHFUL St. Augustine, 1829
(A Physician's “Come on Down!”).  Anderson, Andrew.  [begins:] St. Augustine, November, 1829. Sir, The nature of the present communication will present the best apology I can offer for asking your attention to its object....” [St. Augustine ?]: no publisher/printer, 1829. 4to. [2] pp. with integral blank.
$1250.00
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For Your TravelsLuxurious or Otherwise
Allen, F. Sturges.  What's what? At home and abroad.  New York: Bradley White Co., 1902. 12mo. 122 pp.
$60.00


The Latest inSurgical Techniques
Bell, John.  Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds. Walpole, NH: Pr. for Thomas & Thomas and Justin Hinds by George W. Nichols, 1807. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. 192, 180 pp.; 2 plts.
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Written While Living in Rhode Island & Drawing Its Landscape
Berkeley, George.   Alciphron: Or, the minute philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian religion, against whose who are called free-thinkers. London: J. Tonson, 1732. 8vo. 2 vols. I: [6] ff., 350 pp. II: [4] ff., 358 pp.
$875.00
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By aMegastar Medical Professor
Boerhaave, Herman.  Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, in usum doctrinae domesticae digesti ... editio sexta. Edinburgi: R. Drummond & Soc. for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1744. 12mo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). [8], 330, [24 (index)] pp.
$650.00

Water asCure-all
Bourne, George Melksham. The home doctor: a guide to health. By Dr. Bourne, of San Francisco. San Francisco: San Francisco News Company, 1878. Small 8vo. Frontis. port., xx, 505, [1] pp.; illus.
$450.00


ARemarkably Fresh & Attractive Copy
Brown, Eli F.  The eclectic physiology or guide to health. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company, [1888?]. 8vo. 189, [3 (adv.)] pp.; 4 col. plts.
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The Author Was aStrange (Mental) Case
Browne, Simon.  A defence of the religion of nature, and the Christian revelation; against the defective account of the one, and the exceptions against the other, in a book, entitled, Christianity as old as the creation. London: Richard Ford, 1732. 8vo (20.6 cm, 8.1"). vi, [2], 267, 272–512 pp.
$575.00
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“The Best BookEver Written”
Burton, Robert.  The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and several cures of it...the ninth edition, corrected; to which is now first prefixed, an account of the author. London: Vernor & Hood et al. (pr. by J. Cundee), 1800. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., xxiv, 121, [1], 461, [1 (blank)] pp. II: Frontis., [4], 601, [1 (blank)], [14 (index & adv.)] pp.
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An Early Example of Footwear Scholarship
& an Essay on Sleep
Bynaeus, Anthony.  De calceis hebraeorum, sive antiquitates hebraicae vindicatae .... Lugduni Batavorum: Joh. Arn. Langerak, 1724. Format (21.1 cm, 8.3"). [18], 267, [29 (index)] pp.; 3 plts. [with the same author’s] Somnium, recitatum trajecti ad Rhenum, in acroaterio majore .... Dordraci: Theodori Goris, 1695. [8], 24 pp.
$650.00
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A Nun's CopyThen Another Nun's
Capuchin Nuns.  Regla de la gloriosa santa Clara,con las constituciones de las monjas Capuchinas del santissimo crucifixo de Roma, reconocidas, y reformadas por el Padre General de los Capuchinos y con las adiciones a los estatutos de dicha regla ... Mexico: Reimpressa en la Imprenta del Lic. Don Joseph de Jauregui, n.d. [ca. 1760–75]. 16mo (15 cm; 6'). [4] ff., 234 pp.
$750.00
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Demonology Witchcraft Magic Medicine
Coumont, Jean-Pierre.   Demonology and witchcraft: An annotated bibliography with related works on magic, medicine, superstition, &c. Utrecht: Hes & De Graf Publishers BV, 2004. Folio. x, 585, [1], lxxx pp.; illus.
$350.00


Materia MedicaAncient Knowledge
Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos.   Dioscoridis libri octo Graece et Latine. Castigationes in eosdem libros. Parisiis: Apud Petrum Haultinum (colophon: Excudebat Benedictus Prevost), 1549. 8vo (16.7 cm, 6.5"). [20], 392 ff.
$1000.00
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