New York: New York University Press, 1999. Frontis, illustrated with a handful of b/w images. 433 pages. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. New York: New York University Press, (1999). A very good(-) ex-library copy--foxing to outer edges, and stamps removed from rear endpaper, several pages with light creasing to upper corner--in a very good(+) wrapper, but with flaps glued to pastedowns. More

Buenos Aires: 1926. Autographed note signed with a mounted 4.75 x 3.75-inch" photograph, in the form of a greeting card. The photo and note together measure 5 x 7.75 inches. Buenos Aires, November 3, 1926, in Spanish, thanking the recipient for his kind words of encouragement. Lavalle has signed with his full (scarce) signature. Excellent condition. Prominent Argentine surgeon and a pioneer in the search for a cure for tuberculosis. His groundbreaking paper "Biological treatment of osteoarticular lesions" was so..... More

1 page. 7 x 8". An affidavit from a physician attesting that Issac S. Collins, a Clergyman from Massachusetts, reports he has created a cure for Consumption, quoted in part: "...says that 20 years ago he expected to die long before this with Consumption, but has lived quite stable by taking horehound occasionally after taking cold ... andthen English Commercial Tea, made hot and let stand until cold, and drink it for months ... at a time his spittle was..... More