[Rarebooks] FS: UpComing -DEATH!!!! [embalming]

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

We are busily at work preparing a new edition of
A GRAVE AFFAIR -Books about mourning, gravestones,
cemeteries and funeral customs, which will be released
Halloween Weekend. [if you'd like a copy, let us know]

In the meantime, how about a little foreshadowing?
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Sullivan, F.A.  THE ART AND PRACTICE OF EMBALMING. A Thorough and
Practical Text-Book on the Science of Embalming.

Westport; The Embalmers’ Supply Co.: 1901.  A complete, thorough and
graphic book, “including latest and most direct methods of treatment, with
anatomical and physiological descriptions, and a treatise on modern
sanitation and disinfection”. Uncommon.  Hardcover. 6.25”x9”, xix + 268
pages, 18 plates, some partially colored, and many b/w text illustrations;
Publisher’s original light brown cloth with gilt titles; covers withy
moderate soil, and some light staining; contents fine.  [09612]  $150.00

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