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No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1958 Abstracts, disbound from journal; no covers; in very good condition. Journal.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Eighth Edition. First published in 1871, this Eighth Edition from 1886 (this, an 1890 printing) updates earlier versions & adds new material on certain obscure diseases, while omitting a chapter on insanity (for the author was preparing an entirely separate work on this subject). Unusual for the time in that it described alcoholism as a disease rather than a "moral failure." In 956 pages with Index + list of medical journals & a Bibliography of Medical & Hygienic Works in rear, with 112 pen-&-ink illustrations throughout text. Quarto (6.5" x 9.5") has brown cloth over half leather cloth-covered boards, stamped with gilt lettering to spine. Condition Good+: very clean with occasional scattered spots or smudges. Binding strong & straight, hinges secure. Pages significantly tanned, heaviest around edges, unmarked save for a few scattered "x" s in margins in pencil & former owner's information inside front cover: a doctor in Des Moines, IA, dated 1890 in lovely script inside front cover; loose receipt from a local pharmacy inserted. Large dampstain to top outside edges of text block bleeds into upper page margins, rarely touching text. Smaller dampstain to lower edges, restricted to close to center. Extremities are heavily rubbed, with loss to all corners. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Later Printing. Previous owner name, date at top of first page of first chapter, also near top of the title page, "John (appears to be) Foster, Boston, 1876"; 318 pages Very Good No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Early medical treatise on male sexual impotence. Very good, with minor wear to spine ends and front corners; small stains or scuff marks on covers; a couple of signatures slightly sprung; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.…

Good+ thumbed green cloth, some penc., prior owner's heavy sigs. xii, 366 pages. `.the hypothesis of spirits is altogether the least plausible which could be suggested. The phenomena and the explanation have nothing in common.' (p. 364) Chapter headings: 1. Some of the causes which lead to a belief in spiritualism--sensorial deception; 2. Magnetism in its relations to spiritualism; 3. Concentrated attention a source of erroneous sensorial impressions; 4. Sleight of hand compared to spiritualistic manifestations; 5. The different kinds of mediums; 6. Physical mediums; 7. Sensitive or impressible mediums; 8. Seeing and auditive mediums; 9. Speaking mediums; 10. Curing mediums; 11. Pneumatographic and writing mediums; 12. Somnambulism, natural and artificial; 13. Hysteria; 14. Fasting girls; 15. The hysteriod affections--catalepsy, ecstasy, and hystero-epilepsy; 16. Stigmatization; 17. Conclusion. 1st British ed. Binding is Hardback.…