ONAN ESCHEWED - Rick Grunder

Imprint, dimensions and pagination same as the first edition above. Original
[once-]purple patterned cloth, gilt-decorated spine. Internally fine, but the
binding worn and very faded. (paid $61.50 in 1996). $125
OCLC locates more than twenty copies of this quickly-reprinted edition, but only
five in New York (all New York City); only four in Massachusetts.
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108 [VAN DER WEYDE, P. H.] THE GERMAN ELECTRIC BELTS AND
APPLIANCES, Made Under U. S. Patent No. 357,647, Granted to Prof. P. H. Van der
Weyde, M. D., President of New York Electrical Society, and Late Professor of Chemistry
of New York Medical College, Etc. Manufactured and Sold by the German Electric
Agency, 12 Vesey Street, New York, and 28 Endsleigh Gardens, Euston Road, London,
N. W. [cover title: The Electric Era. German Electric Agency . . .]. N.d., ca. 1893.
17½ cm. 24 pp. Elaborately illustrated wrappers lithographed
in red, blue and pink, including back wrapper
illustration of the Electricity Building, Columbus Exposition,
Chicago, 1893; latest testimonial dated June 28, 1893 (p.19).
Crease and wear, but striking appearance. $65
OCLC shows versions published 1888-1901, most located in
one copy (four copies of an 1893 edition). Pages 14-15
attribute "Nervous Debility" in part to "youthful excesses . . .
done before persons have reached the age of discretion . . .
youthful follies . . . ," etc. This can be cured by wearing "The
German Electric Suspensory Belt," illustrated on p.13 (ABOVE;
ILLUSTRATION AT RIGHT from p. 14).
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