Estimate: $250 - $350
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Offered for sale by Adam Langlands of 'Shadowrock Rare Books' - for more information please contact him via email at adamlanglands@gmail.com
LINDSAY & BLAKISTON (publishers). The Family and Ship Medicine Chest Companion … particularly adapted for heads of families, captains of ships, travellers, and overseers of plantations … also General Rules on Bathing … and a concise account of the Asiatic and spasmodic Cholera, with remedies to be used in the absence of professional assistance … by a Practising Physician. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1851. Large 12mo, bound in sixes (7 7/8 x 4 3/4in; 200 x 121mm). Pp.[v-]viii-xii, [13-]416 + 20 pages publishers advertisement. (Some spotting). Publisher’s leather binding, sewn into a 'waterproof' semi-transparent chemise made from very thin animal skin (closer to baking parchment than vellum). (Damage to chemise, see images, stitching a little weak at the beginning and end). Provenance: James W. Willis (ink stamp to front free endpaper).
An intriguing first edition: a sea-going medical vade-mecum.