Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 1,235
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NEW YORK.) Group of 3 items from the Jackson Sanatorium, a pioneering holistic health spa. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, circa 1864-84
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The Jackson Sanatorium in western New York, created by James Caleb Jackson in 1858, was also known as Our Home on the Hillside. It pioneered what one recent history called "a system of holistic health--perhaps the first in the nation" (Iacobbo, Vegetarian America, 94). Granula, America's first breakfast cereal, was invented here circa 1863. The concept was later poached by Kellogg, who changed one vowel to Granola and made it famous; lawsuits followed.
The lot includes: Our Home on the Hillside, Dansville, Liv. Co., N.Y.: The Largest Hygienic Water Cure in the World. Chromolithograph, 24 x 35 1/4 inches, minor dampstaining and foxing. Buffalo, NY: Sage, Sons & Co., circa 1864-70.
An important pamphlet by F. Wilson Hurd, Our Home's house physician: Cookery, or, How to Prepare Food from Grains, Fruits, and Vegetable. 28, [4] pages. 8vo, stitched; moderate foxing, lacking a bit of the final leaf. Third edition of a very early vegetarian cookbook; all three editions are scarce, with only one of each found in OCLC and none known at auction. Dansville, 1864.
Promotional leaflet titled The Sanatorium: Our Home on the Hillside. Illustrated, 4 pages on one folding sheet; moderate foxing. Np, circa 1884.