Angelo Mariani — Coca and Its Therapeutic Application
J. N. Jaros New York Second Edition Good Condition 23cm x 15.5cm. 78 pages, frontispiece, black and white illustrations in the text. Purple cloth, gilt lettering, blind decoration, all edges gilt. Second Edition in English of the influential cocaine monograph by the inventor of the first coca wine (vin Mariani) which became a popular medicinal tonic in Europe and America from the 1860s and was the forerunner to Coca-Cola. An ardent entrepreneur Mariani marketed heavily the curative properties of his spirited beverage, of which this monograph played an important part. Minor mottling to cloth. Small chip to spine. Very minor foxing and tanning. Minor cracking to lower hinge. Category: Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; 19th Century: 1851-1899; Medicine & Health. Inventory No: 0036901.
