Des Vertus Thérapeutiques de La Belladone (On the Therapeutic Value of Belladonna)
Fr[ançois] (de Turnai) Dubois. Des Vertus Thérapeutiques de La Belladone, Appuyées Sur des Faits Pratiques. (On the Therapeutic Value of Belladonna, Supported by Practical Facts). Gand: F. et E. Gyselynck, 1852. First edition.
Inscribed with an ALS (dated 1893) by the author to a Mr. Van Melckebeke, in which the author asks for two obscure publications on cod-liver oil, and for the monograph to be brough to the attention of Van Melckebeke's bookseller.
From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs.
Octavo. 152pp. Contemporary quarter cloth paste-paper boards, with original paper (front) wrapper bound-in, spine lettered in gilt. Text in French.
Spine slightly sunned and rubbed; boards rubbed and edgeworn; endleaves foxed, light toning throughout. Very good. Item #3166
Price: $250.00