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Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician
Harvey Sales 1981 Facsimile Edition Hard Cover Good+ Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
iv, 240 pp. Occasional colour plates. Facsimile edition of the 1826 original. Previous owner's name in ink to front flyleaf. Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped. Page edges lightly yellowed. Boards with some light edgewear. Dustjacket sunned at spine, with some light edgewear.
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Bauby, Jean Dominique The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
London Fourth Estate 1997 1857027795 / 9781857027792 Reprint Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Octavo
139 pp. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. A bit of smudging to upper edge of text block. All else as new. "Everyone in the country should own at least one copy." -- Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian
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Bernarr Macfadden Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Physical Culture Volume IV (4)
New York Physical Culture Publishing Company 1914 Cloth Good No Jacket Quarto
Page numbers 1801-2407. Copyright 1912. Tan cloth boards. Excellent condition internally, very tight binding. Numerous black and white and occasional colour illustrations/photos. Light general wear to page edges, Previous owner's ink stamp to ffep and front cover. Moderate general wear to boards, pasted down number "290" to spine. Overall a very nice copy.
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12.00 AUD
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Bernarr Macfadden Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Physical Culture Volume I (1)
New York Physical Culture Publishing Company 1914 Cloth Good No Jacket Quarto
583pp. Copyright 1912. Tan cloth boards. Excellent condition internally, very tight binding. Numerous black and white and occasional colour illustrations/photos. This volume includes a wonderful colour "Manikin", which folds out to reveal muscles, organs and skeleton, which in this copy is in superb condition with everything intact (handlebar moustache does not lift up; nor does the figleaf). Light general wear to page edges, Previous owner's ink stamp to ffep and front cover. Moderate general wear to boards, pasted down number "288" to spine. Overall a very nice copy.
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British Homoeopathic Society British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. Third Edition
London E. Gould & Son 1882 Third Hard Cover Good No Jacket Octavo
xix, 456 pp. General and edgewear to brown stamped boards. Corners and extremities of backstrip are worn through, with a little loss to lower edge of backstrip. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt seal ("Similia Similibus") to front cover are bright, but a little rubbed. Considerable foxing to edges of text block; occasional foxing internally; otherwise unmarked. Corner creases to less than 20 pages. In two or three places string is showing between signatures, but binding and hinges are quite solid.
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145.00 AUD
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Caplan, Pat, editor Food, Health and Identity
London Routledge 1997 0415156807 / 9780415156806 First Paperback Paperback Very Good Octavo
xii, 280 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers; spine uncreased. Very faint discolouration to edges of text block. Internally bright, unmarked, solidly bound. "Invaluable reading for students of anthropology, cultural studies and health promotion as well as for those scientists and policy makers who are concerned with food."
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Chaitow, Leon Stone Age Diet: The Natural Way to Eat
London Macdonald Optima 1987 0356123286 / 9780356123288 Paperback Good Octavo
160 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers; crease to lower back corner. Shallow reading creases to spine, but binding is solid. Yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked. Illustrated with b/w cartoons. "Examines the paleolithic diet and discovers some startling parallels with modern nutritional advice: plenty of raw fruit and vegetables, some meat and fish, but little or no cereals or dairy products." Includes recipes.
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Coffin, A. I. Botanic Guide to Health, and the Natural Pathology of Disease
Manchester The British Medico-Botanic Press 1850 Nineteenth Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12 mo
375 pp. General and edgewear to treated cloth boards; corners worn through. Foxing and discolouration to edges of text block. Occasional foxing and stains to otherwise unmarked pages. A few small tears. Binding is solid. General index; index of remedial agents (plants by common names, and medical compounds), index by various forms of diseases.
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Compton-Burnett, J. Curability of Tumours by Medicines
Calcutta M. Bhattacharyya & Co 1967 Reprint Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12 mo
384 pp. Maroon cloth boards a little sunned along the spine, but clean and bright. Internally unmarked, solidly bound. A few pages roughly cut at the fore-edge; small tears to the rear endpapers.
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Goetze, Jutta Dolphins Dance
Fitzroy Victoria Australia Black Dog Books 2000 1876372028 / 9781876372026 First Paperback Very Good + Octavo
115 pp. Very light general wear to illustrated wraps. Internally as new.
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Hall, Dorothy Iridology: Personality and Health Analysis Through the Iris
Melbourne Nelson 1980 0170055582 / 9780170055581 Reprint Paperback Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
241 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated wraps. Deep crease across front cover. Edges of text block a little grubby. A few splotches to inside front cover. Lower (blank) half of half-title page is torn away; otherwise, interior clean and bright. Colour and black-and-white photos, diagrams, Iris Map frontis.
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Hern, John Advanced Hygiene; or, How to Cure Disease without Recourse to Drugs or Medicines of Any Kind
Melbourne Mason, Firthy & MCutcheon Hard Cover Good No Jacket Octavo
328 pp. Red cloth boards with decorative blindstamping are worn and stained, with a prominent round cup stain to front cover. Gilt lettering to backstrip partially rubbed away. Gutter separated where half-title has been removed. Last page has two-inch tear along gutter, and a small chunk torn from the fore margin. Colour from boards has bled onto lower edge of front and rear eps. Light pencilled underlining to only two pages; otherwise unmarked. One b/w illustration (alimentary canal). Recipes (flour and milk, gum water, treacle whey, other yummies).
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