Language: English
Published by The Classics of Medicine Library, 1995
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover, genuine tan leather binding with raised spine lettered in 22 kt gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. Includes bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. xxv, 332 pages. Special limited edition, first edition thus prepared from the 1833 first English edition. "Hahnemann wrote this book in order to document his new system of medicine, "Homoeopathy"". Though reprinted several times in recent years, the present book remains the only truly collectible modern version. A pristine and like new copy. As new.
Language: English
Published by W. F. Wakeman, 9, D'Olier-St., Dublin, 1833
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English translation, xxv, [1, errata], 332 pp, bound in recent cloth backed boards, edges uncut, some minor spotting to the text but very good overall. The first Englsh translation of the first Homeopathy text book, originally published in German in 1810 , translated from the fourth German edition, scarce especially in such good condition. The First German is noted in 'Printing and the Mind of Man' no. 265.