[DRUGS]. A group of 11 titles on drugs, including:
ARTAUD, Antonin. Les Tarahumaras. [Lyon]: L’Arbalete Marc Barbezat, [1955]. Original wrappers, glassine. FIRST EDITION THUS, ONE OF 5,500 COPIES. -- ARTAUD, Antonin. Au Pays des Tarahumaras. Paris: Fontaine, 1945. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION THUS, A PART OF COLLECTION “L’AGE D’OR”. -- MOTOO TAMURA. Ninjin Koosakuki (in Japanese: The cultivation of Korean Medical Carrots). [Japan: 1747]. With several hand-colored woodcuts of plants. Later string-bound wrappers. FIRST EDITION. -- BERINGER, Kurt. Der Meskalinrausch Seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1927. Near contemporary binding of marbled boards. Some library markings. FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXCELLENT TREATISE ON PEYOTE. – GILG, E. and SCHURHOFF, P. N. Aus dem Reiche der Drogen. Dresden: Schwarzeck, 1926. Original cloth binding. Illustrated. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. -- LEGRAIN, Docteur. Les Grands Narcotiques Sociaux. Paris: Grande Librairie Medical A. Maloine, 1925. Original wrappers. Institutional inkstamp on title-page. FIRST EDITION. -- ZINGG, Robert Mowry. The Huichols: Primitive Artists [Germany:] Stechert for Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago and the Laboratory of Anthropology Santa Fe, New Mexico, [1938]. Illustrated. Bound in near contemporary half blue morocco (some sunning, wear, a few ink notes throughout). FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT ANTHROPOLOGIAL STUDY OF THE HUICHOL; THE AUTHOR’S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. -- GRIFFIN, John. Chemical Recreations: a Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments… Glasgow: Richard Griffin, 1825. Original printed boards, front board re-attached. FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. -- [WELLCOME, Henry S.] From Ergot to ‘Ernutin’ an Historical Sketch. London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co., 1908. Original blue morocco thin boards. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. -- DAUDET, Leon. Sebastien Gouves. Paris: Bibliotheque Charpentier (Triage special pour LES XX), 1899. Original wrappers bound into a special blue cloth backstrip over printed watered silk binding. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 20 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON A LAID-IN SHEET. -- Huit Contes a Mariani. Paris: Henry Floury, [1900]. Publisher’s sammelband of 8 titles. Original publisher’s cloth, original wrappers bound-in. Front board re-attached, rear hinge starting.
Together, 18 works in 11 volumes, condition generally good.