Early & Rare American Homoeopathy

(HOMOEOPATHY). JAHR, G.H.G. G.H.G. Jahr's Manual of Homoeopathic Medicine. Translated from the German. With Improvements and Additions by C. Hering, M.D. In Two Volumes [in one]. Allentown, Pa: at the Academical Book Store, 1836. First American edition. 8vo. 588 pp., but lacking portion of index. Orig. cloth-backed printed boards. Covers stained but good, no endpapers (never present?) Insurance ads (from 1872) pasted on inside of covers. $550.00

Bradford, p. 169, calling for only 419 pages (this is only the first part; the "Systematic-alphabetical Repertory to the Foregoing Symptoms" is the second "volume" as described on the titlepage, with only a flytitle and continuing pagination). For reasons entirely unclear, "Third Part" is printed on the front board. Bradford, under 1838, now recording the second part (which is present in our 1836 copy), writes: "(This, the first work on Homoeopathic Materia Medica published in America, was first issued in five parts, each of 120 pages, and sold at $1 per part. The Sympatomalogy appeared in 1836; the Repertory two years later; the book was then published in one octavo volume of 600 pages, bearing the imprint of 1838, with but one title page. Half-morocco, $2.50. In one copy still extant, the imprint of Part 1 is 1836; of Part 2, 1838...)" NUC reports two copies of an 1836 edition with the two parts as we offer it, but also declares the second part to have first been published in 1838, of which there is no evidence here.