MEDICINE MEDICINE 
“The FATTENING Regimen”?
Jackson, Robert G. The fattening regimen a manual for the too-thin. Toronto: Print-Craft Ltd., 1928. 8vo. 119, [1] pp.; 4 plts. 
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover stamped in black; binding cocked, otherwise showing little to no wear. Minor foxing to and around plates. (19681)
THE KINSEY REPORT Kinsey, Alfred. C.; Wardell B. Pomeroy; & Clyde E. Martin. Sexual behavior in the human male. Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1948. 8vo. xv, [1], 804 pp.
• Very good, in publisher's cloth. Front free endpaper torn out. Preliminary pages with a few light creases in fore-margins probably created from paper clips being fastened to them at one time. (10711)
Chiswick Press Erotica — Limited to 125 CopiesKnight, Richard Payne. A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients ... (a new edition). To which is added an essay on the worship of the generative powers during the middle ages of Western Europe. London: Privately printed [at the Chiswick Press for J.C. Hotten], 1865. 4to (21.9 cm, 8.6"). xvi, 254 pp.; 40 plts. (2 double-page).
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The volume is illustrated with 40 engraved plates depicting various phallic and genital-oriented statues, coins, and images. There was a very close reprinting in 1894, with a preface giving that date; the present
example matches the collation and all other points of the 1865 edition, including the errata being in their uncorrected state (they were updated for the 1894 printing).
Binding: Roxburghe-style binding of contemporary quarter straight-grain morocco with dark red paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. Upper edges gilt.
An interesting “gentleman’s book” in a variety of senses.
Dance of Death Chapbook — “Très Rare”La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Troyes: Jean-Antoine Garnier, 1728. 4to (22 cm, 8.6"). 76 pp.
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60 large woodcuts illustrate the text, with some images appearing in both sections. The volume concludes with several poems on the themes of life, death, and the afterlife.
Uncommon: We trace only nine copies in the U.S., all but one in libraries east of the Mississippi.
• Fairfax-Murray, French, 108; Morin, Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes, 435; Nisard, Histoire des Livres Populaires, II, 303. Binding with minor scuffing at corners and old (good) repairs to head and foot of spine, with leather starting to crack over joints; hinges tender. Pages slightly age-toned, with signature marks shaved.
Hippocratic AphorismsLoew von Erlsfeld, Johann Franz. Nova et vetus aphorismorum divi senis Hippocratis interpretatio iuxta mentem veterum et recentiorum in publica cathedra ingenuae juventuti medicae pragensi explanata .... Francofurti & Lipsiae: Johannis Ziegeri, 1711. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). Frontis., [14], 1180 (i.e., 1172), [48 (index)] pp. (pagination skips 361–68, text uninterrupted).
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The title-page of this volume is printed in red and black; the engraved frontispiece portrait is signed “A.C.F.”
Scarce. Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 find only three U.S. and two overseas locations.
• Contemporary half mottled sheep with speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides and edges with a few small scuffs, leather chipped at head of spine and along parts of back joint. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829 and with stamp (no other markings). Mild browning and spotting, with a few leaves more notably foxed; one leaf with ink stains. Pagination skips from 360 to 369, with text uninterrupted as shown by catchword and signature. A stout, rather handsome volume.
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Food Values [Lorry, Anne-Charles]. Essai sur les alimens, pour servir de commentaire aux livres diététiques d'Hippocrate. Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Vincent, 1757. 12mo (16.8 cm, 6.5"). 2 vols. I: xxiv, 440, [4] pp.; II: xv, [1], 436 pp.
Lorry also offers hypotheses on the effects of diet on diseases such as cancer.• Bitting, 293; Vicaire 342. "Leopard-spotted" mottled calf, spines gilt extra with pineapple devices, lightly worn. Vol. I front and back covers each with abraded patch, vol. II with smaller abrasions to back cover. All edges stained red; silk bookmarks present in both volumes. Pages very crisp and clean. Doctor's ownership inscriptions to title-page of one volume and front fly-leaf of the other. (2148)
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Proving thatPolygamy is Enjoined upon Christians Lyserus, Johann Peter Theodore. Polygamia triumphatrix, id est discursus politicus de polygamia. Londini Scanorum: Sumtibus authoris, 1682. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [10], 565, [33] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. According to the online cataloguing of this book at Brigham Young University, “Early editions [were] burnt by [the] hangman in Denmark (1676); in Sweden (1679) . . . the possession of a copy meant a 1000 ducat fine. This edition was added to the Index of forbidden books in 1687.” It is often held today in medical libraries.
• Graesse, I, 68. 17th-century speckled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather acid-pitted, front joint (outside) cracked, edges rubbed. Front pastedown with Parisian bookseller's ticket; front free endpaper with pencilled annotation; back pastedown with rubber-stamped date in 1908. Slip of old printed cataloguing laid in. (23549)
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Begins: "Deprecacion contra la peste. Al divino rostro." [Mexico City, ca. 1830–50].
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• Slightly irregular margins, as issued. Handsome.
BUILDER of the FIRST
New World Utopian Community Moreno, Juan Joseph. Fragmentos de la vida, y virtudes del v. illmo. y rmo. Sr. Dr. D. Vasco de Quiroga primer obispo de la santa iglesia cathedral de Michoacan, y fundador del real, y primitivo Colegio de s. Nicolàs obispo de Valladolid ... Con notas criticas, en que se aclaran muchos puntos historicos, y antiguedades americanas especialmente michoacanenses. Mexico: en la imprenta del Real, y mas antiguo Colegio de S. Ildefonso, 1766. Small 4to (20.5 cm; 8"). [13] ff., 202 pp., [2] ff., 29, [1 (errata)] pp., port.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Not the least of his accomplishments was the creation of two pueblo-hospitals for native Americans, and appended and integral to this biography are his “Reglas, y ordenanzas para el gobierno de los Hospitales de Santa Fé de México, y Michoacàn,” which occupy the final 29 pages.
Historians still consider this to be the definitive biography of Quiroga. The engraved portrait of him, handsome and from the burin of José Morales, adds a face to the words of the biographer and to the account of the deeds of the biographee.
• Medina, Mexico, 5099; Wellcome, Medical Americana, M.134; Palau 181902; Beristain, III, 2059. Contemporary limp vellum lacking ties. A very good copy. (23061)
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Edition, 19 PlatesO’Neill, Thomas. A treatise on the eighteen manoeuvres.... Likewise, observations on the interior regulation of companies.... London: Pr. by R. Edwards, 1805. 8vo (24.4 cm, 9.625"). 128 pp.; 19 plates. 
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regulations,
including some for surgeons.
This is this work’s sole edition, and we were able to trace six copies via OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956. Half of the copies are in U.S. military libraries, underscoring the volume’s importance as a military manual.
• NSTC O363. Recent quarter red morocco over marbled paper with gilt-lettered spine. Upper outer corner of pp. 9–10 lost, repaired with paper resulting in no loss of text. Shallow chipping and tattering (with one tissue repair on title-page), not touching text or figures. Some brownstaining in margins. Rubber-stamps of a now-defunct library, including one on title-page. All edges gilt.
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