Prest, T
Medical, Music Steam Pills
- $15
Philadelphia, c 1850., 2p, exterior blankpp. No copies of this 1st ed located per OCLC. Delightful musical presentation of patent medicine, with illustration at top of overly medicated man. Second page has 16 verses describing the patient's progress. "When dead,--as the truth I would sing in my song, His nose it measured full three yards long" (This price is discounted 80%.)
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Mahone, William? (Petersburg), 1886, 8pp. Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg citizens had seen Crismond's (the Guano merchant) answer to Mahone's attack. Here Mahone rebuts Crismond's defense, tooth and toenail, citing equivocations and detailing lies. Not found per OCLC nor per on-line listings by Lib. of VA, UVA, or VA Hist. Society.- $500
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