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Indian Physician

Indian Physician by RISHEL, Jonas

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
Indian Physician
Author
RISHEL, Jonas
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
New Berlin, PA: Joseph Miller, 1828. Full Description: RISHEL, Jonas. The Indian Physician, Containing a New System of Practice, Founded on Medical Plants. Together with a Description of Their Properties, Localities and Method of Using, and Preparing Them. A Treaties on the Causes and Symptoms of Diseases, Which are Incident to Human Nature, with a Safe and Sovereign Cure for them and the Mode oe Treatment, in any Stage of Disease. For the Use of Families and Practitioners of Medicine. New Berlin, PA: Joseph Miller, 1828. First edition. Twelvemo (6 5/8 x 4 inches; 168 x 100 mm). xii, 132, pp. Pages 101-104 bound in upside-down. Contemporary half calf over patterned paper boards. Rubbing to spine, board edges and corners. Some splitting to outer joints, but holding firm. Pages are heavily toned as usual for American paper of this era. Some general soiling and dampstaining throughout. Previous owner's early ink name stamp "M.S. Rissel" to top margin of title-page, and Preface. Previous owner's old ink notes to front free endpaper. Still overall very good. Provenance: The old ink ownership stamp on the top margin of title-page belongs to M.S. Rissel. According to the ink notes on the front free endpaper: The original owner was Michael S. Rissel (1813-1884) of Muncy, PA (about 25 miles from New Berlin), who was a first cousin once removed of the author; they both descended from German immigrant Johann "Hans" Michael Rishell (1712-1759), who died in Lehigh County, PA. In 1887, Michael's widow Julia A. Beeber Rissel (1813-1896) gave the book to her grandson John Harold Kessler (1864-1943). An early Pennsylvania publication on the medicine and healing of Native American tribesby Dr. Jonas Rishel. This text was issued in response to the perceived "inattentiveness of many who profess to prescribe aid to the sick" (page iii). Among the testimonials is a man whose wife nearly died after being treated with large doses of mercury, but was saved by Rishel's "steam and vegetable medicine" (page viii). "Whereas the earliest years of Indian doctoring by non-Indians was very much pragmatic and utilitarian in nature, often practiced due to lack of choice more than lack of tradition, by 1800 the notion of practicing Indian medicine became a popular philosophy for some life styles. During the decade or two that followed, the romanticization of Indian life, countered by the numerous popular press accounts of Indian attacks as well, led to a sensitization of the public to the fate of the Indian and the failing missionary movement to convert Indians to Christians. This social issue would remain a hot topic for years to come. During that time, some people became more sensitized to the Native American tradition and some even became converts in some superficial, symbolic sense, mostly for purposes of display and to earn a living. There are several examples of these individuals who turned to the popular press to sell their unique philosophy and identities." One such book was "The Indian Physician" by Jonas Rishel. (The First "Indian Doctors" Brian Altonen) Shaw & Shoemaker 35045. HBS 69519. $5,000.
Collection of 12 Almanacs, bound in one volume, all from the year 1772, being the Bissextile or Leap-Year

Collection of 12 Almanacs, bound in one volume, all from the year 1772, being the Bissextile or Leap-Year by ALMANAC

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Seller: Argosy Book Store
Title
Collection of 12 Almanacs, bound in one volume, all from the year 1772, being the Bissextile or Leap-Year
Author
ALMANAC
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(+)
Description
London: Various, 1772. First. hardcover. very good(+). Rubricated text throughout. Illustrated with many charts and some woodcut diagrams. Thick 12mo, contemporary red calf, gilt, leather label, a.e.g. London: various publishers, , for The Company of Stationers, 1772. First editions. An interesting collection in a very good(+) attractive period binding Titles include: Remarkable News from the Stars; The Gentleman's Diary & Mathematical Repository; The Ladies' Diary; Vox Stellarum; Merlinus Liberatus; Parker's Ephemeris; The Coelestial Diary; Poor Robin; The English Apollo; Speculum Anni; Olympia Domata; The Coelestial Atlas. Various printers.
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Russische und Sowjetische Zeichnungen und Aquarelle von 1900 bis 1930 aus dem Puschkin-Museum Moskau by (ALEXANDROWA, Natalia)

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Title
Russische und Sowjetische Zeichnungen und Aquarelle von 1900 bis 1930 aus dem Puschkin-Museum Moskau
Author
(ALEXANDROWA, Natalia)
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN
9783891650653
Condition
fine
Description
Mannheim: Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1990. paperback. fine. Many plates, several in color. Square, small 4to, pictorial wrs. Mannheim: Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1990. Fine Exhibition catalogue
1845 Advertisement for John Herdman’s Emigrant Passage Office, with Letter Offering Commission for Finding Clients

1845 Advertisement for John Herdman’s Emigrant Passage Office, with Letter Offering Commission for Finding Clients by [United Kingdom – Immigration – Great Famine] Herdman, John

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Title
1845 Advertisement for John Herdman’s Emigrant Passage Office, with Letter Offering Commission for Finding Clients
Author
[United Kingdom – Immigration – Great Famine] Herdman, John
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Folded and slightly wrinkled, near fine.
Description
New York City, 1845. Two printed pages measuring 9 ¾ x 11 ½ inches, one signed. Folded and slightly wrinkled, near fine.. A circular advertising passage between Great Britain and Ireland and numerous locations in the United States, from Boston to New Orleans, by a regular packet ship service managed by John Herdman and Company. The company also offered remittances, whereby an individual in the US could send money to a friend or relative back across the Atlantic, generally to pay for their passage to the States. The second sheet, a signed letter, offers a commission for finding customers: five percent of the passage fare and one percent of the remittance money. In 1845, the Great Famine in Ireland was just beginning, and Ireland would lose a large proportion of its population not just to starvation but also to emigration. Earning commission on remittances could have been quite lucrative: the National Museum of Ireland estimates that the amount sent back to Ireland in remittances between 1845 and 1854—the height of the famine—reached $19 million.
Autographed Cabinet Card, Manuscript Sign Verse and pen and ink of "The Captain's Well

Autographed Cabinet Card, Manuscript Sign Verse and pen and ink of "The Captain's Well by John Greenleaf Whittier

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Seller: Eclectibles
Title
Autographed Cabinet Card, Manuscript Sign Verse and pen and ink of "The Captain's Well
Author
John Greenleaf Whittier
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Intact tear on autograph page.
Description
1880. Intact tear on autograph page.. A grouping of materials related to Whittier. The first is a cabinet card with Whittier's signature at base. The second is a 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" page from an autograph album with what seems to be an original verse penned and signed by John G. Whittier, Amesbury 1878. The reverse has an drawing by Alice C. Boynton, Boston MA. The third is a 4" x 4 1/2" piece of shingle with a pen and ink somewhat naive drawing of "The Captain's Well". It is captioned "And I knew in that vision beyong the sea, The very place where my well must be". Penned on the reverse "Picture of the 'Captian's Well' at Amesbury on a shingle from John G. Whittier's House in Amesbury". This is being sold only as an illustration, there has been no attempt to confirm that the wood shingle is from Whittier's home. The final item is a snippet from a letter penned by Whittier.
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Bourdelle and the Dance Isadora and Nijinsky by Aveline, Claude; Michel Dufet

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Title
Bourdelle and the Dance Isadora and Nijinsky
Author
Aveline, Claude; Michel Dufet
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
Description
Paris: Arted, Éditions D'Art, 1969. Hardcover. vg. 4to. Unpaginated. Maroon cloth with gilt title to cover and spine in original dj. Minor creasing and discoloration to dj. Minor age yellowing to outer edges of pages not affecting text or plates. "The set of drawings published here shown how Émile Antoine Bourdelle's ideas developed in composing the high-relief 'The Dance'." In very good condition.