Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases …

by Shadrach Ricketson

$350 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

New York: Collins, Perkins, and Co., 1806. 8vo. x, 298 pp., plus 2 pages publisher’s advertisements. Complete with the rare separate leaf of recommendations dated Sept. 1. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, rubbed; a very nice copy. Item #20111 First edition of the first American publication on preventative medicine. In general, Ricketson emphasizes several methods for preserving

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