1858 Leather Ladies' Repository Harriet Beecher Stowe Vision Hashish Marijuana
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1858 LEATHER LADIES' REPOSITORY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE VISION HASHISH MARIJUANA. (764 pages, double column format. Profusely illustrated with fine steel engraved prints and portraits. Content listed below. 4) An unusual piece titled A Peep at Atomic Theory (in 1858?). OFFERED HERE is a rare 1858 leatherbound volume of a women's periodical titled Ladies' Repository, published in Cincinnati, Ohio, by L. Swormstedt and A. Poe. Sized 10x8 inches, handsomely bound in high quality leather with marbled boards, gilt titles. 764 pages, double column format. Profusely illustrated with fine steel engraved prints and portraits. Content listed below. 1) Vision of Hascheesch, by a Wanderer, name not given. The anonymous contributor writes, a "fine nervous thrill trembled along every fiber of my frame to my very extremities, my heart throbbed with such violence that every pulsation seemed like the stroke of a trip hammer..." Three pages double column. 2) The Indians of Washington Territory, by Charles Nordhoff. 3) A full page print of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, accompanying a 4-page biography and appreciation, under the heading Literary Women of America. 4) An unusual piece titled A Peep at Atomic Theory (in 1858?) Lots more.
