The Great Patent Medicine Era or Without Benefit of Doctor
by HECHTLINGER, Adelaide
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Schilde, Belgium
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About This Item
New York,: Galahad Books,, (n.d. ca. 1985).. 248 pp. Large 4to (24,5 x 30 cm.). Original cloth picorial dust-jacket (dust-jacket with some small tears at top). With numerous illustrations of patent medicine, advertisements, brochures, etc. A popular, but interesting, history of American quackery. Vey attractive graphics and bood design.
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- Bookseller
- Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books (BE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1671
- Title
- The Great Patent Medicine Era or Without Benefit of Doctor
- Author
- HECHTLINGER, Adelaide
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Galahad Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- (n.d. ca. 1985).
- Keywords
- quackery quacks charlatans charlatanism kwakzalvers orvietans americana pharmacy patent medicines nostrums
- Bookseller catalogs
- quackery - quacks;
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Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
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About the Seller
Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
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Schilde
About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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