[Medicine Science] Mariani Angelo (1838 1914) Coca and its

Sale 2603 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 500

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400

[Medicine & Science] Mariani, Angelo (1838-1914)
Coca and its Therapeutic Application.

New York: J. N. Jaros [for Mariani], 1890.

First edition in English, illustrated with frontispiece, text illustrations, and a double-page color lithograph of a coca plant printed by Pigelet in Paris, 78 pages; bound in contemporary burgundy cloth stamped in blind with gold lettering on spine and front board; dark brown clay-coated endleaves (inner joints slightly cracked, losses at head and tail), aeg., generally good, with faults noted, 8 3/4 x 6 in.

Mariani's self-published work serves as an extended sales tool for marketing his Vin Mariani coca wine, a drink that contained cocaine and is seen as the precursor to Coca-Cola.

Worldcat lists no copies of this 1890 edition, nor any other earlier editions in English; rare at auction.

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