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820 Broadway, New York: Jerome Kidder M'f'g. Co, 1884. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 65 pages. Small 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches) Printed light pink pictorial wrappers. Label of "Library of The Saturday Afternoon Club" covering an older inked inventory (?) number with associated staining. Modern white label with inked notations affixed to front wrapper obscuring part of title. Cutout on front wrapper (1 1/8 x 1 3/8 inches) affecting printed text on inside front wrapper (purchasing instructions). Penciled note "Medical electricity" on front wrapper as well. Internally bright and clean with a few turned corners. Wraps. Post dates the death of Jerome Kidder, (who died on May 13, 1879) with a testimonial on page 53 dated Aug 12, 1884. Perhaps most valuable today as a trade catalogue/marketing document, It begins with some theory about electro-allotropic physiology and shows some examples of how it manifests to users. Then come earned awards and boilerplate how applications work from previous… Read More

820 Broadway, New York: [ Francis M. Kidder & Co. successors to Dr. Jerome Kidder ], 1880. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. [36] pages. Plus light brown printed wrappers. 8vo (6 x 9 1/8 inches). Large stain to cover with dampstaining internally in decreasing size. Cellotape and archival tape repairs to covers (spine, front cover, and re-attaching a large chip to the rear cover). Cellotape repairs darkening paper underneath - the archival (we think) spine repair looks stable. Not paginated, the first 14 pages are a treatise on diseases treatable with these machines, illustrated with woodcuts. Then follows a leaf with copyright notices on front and a large shield noting the American Institute gold medal. Followed by 8 pages of proper catalogue entries (illustrations, prices, etc) and then more testimonials. Wraps. This catalogue, like others related to Jerome Kidder and his inventions, is a combination of testimonials, a nicely illustrated trade catalogue, and award notices. But it… Read More