Ayer Dr J C (42 results)

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Ayer's American Almanac: for the Use of Farmers, Planters, Mechanics, and All Families.; 1895. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New.

12mo, publisher's yellow printed wrappers. First edition. Marginal chip to the front wrapper, which is lightly soiled and has a few brown splash stains.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Unpaginated, about 40 pages, some wear and stains to cover, solid copy. ID# Pamph10.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Stringbound in wrappers. Some soiling and wear. ; 8.50 X 6 X 1.50 inches.

Paperback. Condition: Sound and clean. ***please read*** Copy shows moderate wear (see picture) - 37 pages - size 5 x 7.5 inches - inside a plastic sleeve - my shelf location mag-115.

36 pp. 12mo, publisher's yellow printed wrappers. First edition. The front wrapper is defective, missing the lower right quadrant; and the final leaf of text has its lower corner torn away, affecting several letters of printing.

36 pp. 12mo, publisher's yellow printed wrappers. First edition. Light use to wrappers; some leaves dog-eared.

36 pp. 12mo, publisher's yellow printed wrappers. First edition. Wrappers dust-soiled and spotted; small chips and wear. Ink signature on front wrapper; some annotations to text.

36 pp. 12mo, publisher's yellow printed wrappers. First edition. Near fine: clean and unworn.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). Ayer's American Almanac combines data for the year 1882 (moon phases, sunrise/sunset tables, etc.) with jokes and witticisms, alongside advertisements for Ayer's various commercial products, medicines, ointments, tonics and so on. The soft covers are heavily decorated with handwritten sums, and several pages are creased and dog-eared, but the text is legible and all pages are present. Small illustrations appear throughout, advertising products such as Ayer's Sarsaparilla or highlighting the stories of satisfied customers whose vigor was restored by an Ayers tonic. 36 pages, approx. 5"x7".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Unpaginated, about 34 pp, lower right corner folded, original wraps, some soiling, moderate wear, advertises "Ayer's Sarsparilla Makes the Weak Strong," showing a man fighting a lion. ID# P10.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by B&W ills. (illustrator). First Thus. fair in wraps (edgewear, chipping, staining; loss to rear of wraps 2 in.) 8vo [c.30pp] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A slice of history! 'Entirely free from alcohol' with 'Not a Drop of Wine, Whisky, Brandy, or Rum' is indicated. VG- in wraps (slight edgewear, chipping, staining) 8vo [c.30pp] Illustrated by B&W ills.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. (36) pages. Few engravings. 7.75 x 5'', printed yellow wrapper. Medical advice promoting Ayer's Cathartic Pills, Sarsaparilla, Ague Cure, Cherry Pectoral, Hair Vigor. Wrap soiled, corner string, VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. (36) pages. Few engravings. 7.75 x 5'', printed yellow wrapper. Medical advice promoting Ayer's Cathartic Pills, Sarsaparilla, Ague Cure, Cherry Pectoral, Hair Vigor. Small corner wrap chip, VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. (36) pages. Few engravings. 7.75 x 5'', printed yellow wrapper. Medical advice promoting Ayer's Cathartic Pills, Sarsaparilla, Ague Cure, Cherry Pectoral, Hair Vigor. VG.

Staple-bound pamphlet. Unpaged. H 19.5cm x L 12.75cm. Well soiled and edgeworn covers, long tear along lower spine fold, chip at top left corner of front cover. Bottom page corners of interior leaves creased. Features calendars for all twelve months with usual almanac data and numerous ads of Ayer & Company concoctions - apparently the company used the almanac to promote an assortment of patent medicines, pills, sarsaparilla, etc.

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a woman wearing a fancy pink dress and playing with her young child propped on her shoulders. They are in a serene landscape with grass, plants, and trees. The company implies that scenes like this one can result from using their product. No date, circa 1880s-1890s. 5" x 2 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for slight age toning on back; slightly bumped corners; a few tiny spots on front; and a small, faint dampstain in the lower-left corner. A Very Good copy. Trade card promoting Ayer's Sarsaparilla as prepared by "Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co." of Lowell, Massachusetts and sold by James Mitchell, a merchant in West Eaton, New York. Sarsaparilla is a plant whose root is used is used to make flavorings and medicine. Although sarsaparilla actually may have medicinal properties, such as reducing inflammation and treating joint pain and certain skin diseases, it is not the "blood" cure-all this advertisement claims it to be. The text on back claims Ayer's Sarsaparilla treats "scrofula and all scrofulous, mercurial, and blood disorders." Other ads by Ayer's also named other ailments its sarsaparilla could supposedly treat. Ayer's Sarsaparilla was simply one of many patent medicines at the time that proliferated during the late nineteenth century. Patent medicines are products that are marketed with questionable claims about their medicinal properties. Food and drug regulation acts, beginning with the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, put a stop to the patent medicine industry. The manufacturer of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Dr. J. C. Ayer & Company, was founded by James Cook Ayer (1818-1878), an American businessman who specialized in making and selling patent medicines. It is thought that Ayer never became a doctor (despite the "Dr." in the company's name), but he did study medicine and apprenticed under several pharmacists. Ayer entered the patent medicine industry after buying the apothecary of one his former mentors in Lowell, MA. In 1843 or 1844, he made his first patent medicine, a cherry-flavored cough syrup called Cherry Pectoral, which was marketed as being able to cure coughs and a host of lung-related illnesses. Things took off from there and Ayer soon introduced other products in the company such as Cathartic Pills (supposedly claimed digestive ailments), Ague Cure (claimed to cure malaria), and Hair Vigor (supposedly recolors gray hair). Ayer's Sarsaparilla was introduced around 1859 and would become the company's most lucrative product. Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. eventually became one of the most successful patent medicine companies of the time. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, some trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. (36) pages. Few engravings. 7.75 x 5'', printed yellow wrapper. Promoting Cathartic Pills, Cherry Pectoral, Ague Cure, Sarsaparilla. Small corner chip, bit creased, foxed, VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Softcover. Yellow covers with black lettering. Bound with a pamphlet stitch, and for additional safe-keeping, there is a small hole in the top left corner that is sewn through. Stains to covers, with wear along spine and edges. Contents are in good condition. Preceding the calendar pages is a page with information on the eclipses to occur in 1860, as well as some "jokes" or epigrams: "Whiskey sometimes cures the bite of snakes, but what will cure the bite of whiskey?" The volume seems to be a running advertisement for various pills and medicines by the chemist Dr. Ayer. Unpaginated. Measures 4.5 x 7.25 inches. Pages clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Fast Shipping from the UK. No. book.

Paperback. Original issue. Yellow covers, approximately 5 x 7 1/2 inches, nonpaginated, illustrated with black and white drawings, original (? ) string in upper corner, in German (Deutsch) . Paperback, very good. Corners bumped, light soil on covers, approximately 3/4 inch piece torn off upper corner of front cover, 1/2 inch tear on lower corner, lightly age yellowed, V-shped 1/2 inch tear on one leaf, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Advertising almanac, interspersed with ads for various Ayer's patent medicines. Ephemera.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, stamped in gilt and black, paginations vary, original wrappers bound in, as issued (one appears in bright chromolithography), #6 to #21 with circular numerical stamp on wrapper (the text blocks are clean), #1 to #5 appear as front and rear endsheets; library blindstamp on title leaf, paper label on spine, two integral, rare printed handbills loosely inserted. Confusing enough for a collation? Altogether, a Very Good copy.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 42 pages. 7.75x5.50x0.10 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Terra cotta cloth with gilt & black titles; A good+ nominally ex library copy with owner name at top inside front cover; The almanacs are unpaginated. Size: 5"x7.75".