An early promotional pamphlet for a hernial truss, featuring a folding-plate of the patented apparatus and directions for use. A prominent and influential doctor in New York, Amos G. Hull (1775–1835) was a pioneer physician, surgeon and inventor of the “Patent Hinge Truss,” for the treatment of Prolapsus Uteri.....
A poetic eulogy for the murdered student Josie Langmaid, also relating the circumstances of her horrific death as well as a description of the public memorial created for her. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke.....
First edition of Thaxter’s fourth volume of poems, embellished by the author with twenty-two original watercolors of flowers and other subjects drawn from nature. Signed “Celia Thaxter” on an endpaper and dated 1887. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) spent her childhood on the nearby.....