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New York: Tilden & company, 1852. First edition. 8vo, 28 & [4] pp, with engraved frontis. Original printed wraps, sewn, with an illustration of distilling equipment on the rear wrap. Romaine; p. 135.
Soiled, foxed & spotted, modest edge wear including a couple of small losses, upper wrap partially separated, previous owner's name in pencil at front wrap, label pasted in at the last page of text apparently correcting an error in the address of a retailer, good or better. Formed in 1847, the company was the family business of Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York & 1876 Democratic nominee for president. Their most successful product, known as "Tilden's Extract," was extracted from cannabis indica &, as described on p. 21, "specially recommended for tetanus, hydrophobia, neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, epidemic cholera, , convulsions, hysteria, mental depression, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage." OCLC finds 9 copies under 4 accession numbers, all but 2 with 28 pages, apparently omitting the final 4 pages…
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