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1900000153Paris: H. E. Martin 1900. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Job; Jacques Drogue ornament. Folio - over 12. Book. Undated circa 1900. With 18 color illustrated plates by Job each 14 by 11 inches. Countries covered include of course France Germany USA England Austria-Hungary Belgium China Denmark Spain Greece the Netherlands Italy Russia Persia Sweden Norway Mexico Montenegro Japan Siam Abyssinia Canada Switzerland Transvaal Orange South Africa Turkey Egypt Tunisia Siam Brazil Finland Portugal Bulgaria. Pages are quite toned as inevitable with the type of paper; otherwise clean. Binding tight. <br/><br/> H. E. Martin hardcover books
185347350Lowell MA: James P. Walker 1853. Second edition "enlarged and improved." Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 80pp. Inscribed by author "Respects of." on front cover. Pronounced dampstain to front wrapper at upper margin extending more faintly onto title page and with decreasing severity onto first eight leaves of text. Front wrapper nearly detached but holding; scattered foxing; Good. Second edition of a work originally published in 1850 as An Essay on the Opium Trade. Allen's foreword states his reasons for issuing a new edition including renewed interest in the opium question spurred by "the recent discoveries of immense quantities of gold in California and Australia which must have a very powerful effect upon the Chinese nation and clothe with new interest everything affecting the welfare of that great people." Allen 1813-1889 was trained at the Pennsylvania Medical College and practiced most of his life in Lowell where he had a reputation as a reformer and guardian of public health a crusader for the promotion of preventive medicine especially among the working class for background see American Journal of Public Health vol 93 no. 5 May 2003 p.720ff. James P. Walker unknown books
