Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(WEST.) R.E. Fullerton. An American Italy for Invalids: A Dissertation . . . of a Journey on the Plains, in the Rocky Mountains and Mexico, for the Cure of All Chronic Diseases. 64 pages. 8vo, original printed front wrapper, worn, lacking rear wrapper, rebacked with tape, partly disbound; moderate dampstaining from top edge; perforated Northwestern University library stamp and other library markings on second leaf. Chicago: H.D. Chapin & Co., June 1872
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Promises that an extended tour in the west and Mexico will cure tuberculosis and other ailments. The author offers to lead health tours by rail from Omaha through the mountain parks of Wyoming and Colorado, down to New Mexico and Mexico, and the back. Numerous case studies and testimonials are provided. Only 2 copies have been traced, at the National Library of Medicine and at Yale, both lacking the wrapper which states the publication date. None traced at auction, and not in Graff, Howes, or Sabin.