Sexual Science; Including Manhood, Womanhood, and Their Mutual Interrelations; Love Its Laws, Power Etc....
Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark Brown pebble-grain blind-ruled cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxx, 930pp, (10pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Spine quite sunned on otherwise only faintly edgeworn binding, with text block tight and bright and near fine. Item #45494
A tight and nice early printing of this 1870 classic by one of the "big three" of American phrenology who popularized that discredited "science" in the mid-19th century. Subtitle elaborates: "Selection, or Mutual Adaptation; Married Life Made Happy; Reproduction, and Progenal Endowment, or Paternity, Maternity, Bearing, Nursing, and Rearing Children; Puberty, Girlhood, Etc.; Sexual Ailments Restored, Female Beauty Perpetuated, Etc., Etc. as Taught by Phrenology." Internally a strikingly bright, fresh copy. Scarce in nice condition.
Price: $100.00