Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books. An exhibition on the frequently Excessive & Flamboyant Seller of Nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other Graphic Arts over the last five centuries
by HELFAND, William H
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New York,: Grolier Club,, 2002.. 251, [v] pp. 4to (22 x 27 cm.). Original publisher's cloth with pictorial dust jacket. With numerous plates and illustrations of which a numer in colour. This annotated catalogue accompanies an exhibition on medical quackery, tracing its prevalence from the itinerant seller of nostrums four centuries ago to unsolicited spam on the Internet today. Copy as new.
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- Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books (BE)
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- 1635
- Title
- Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books. An exhibition on the frequently Excessive & Flamboyant Seller of Nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other Graphic Arts over the last five centuries
- Author
- HELFAND, William H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grolier Club,
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 2002.
- Keywords
- quackery bibliography graphic arts prints hogarth daumier
- Bookseller catalogs
- quackery - quacks;
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About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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