Set Reminder2023-06-01 12:00:002023-06-01 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including The Ronald K. Siegel Collection https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-the-ronald-k-siegel-collection-21930 Our summer book sale featured the important collection of drug literature from the esteemed psychopharmacologist, Ronald K. Siegel.
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JONES, John (c. 1640-1709). The Mysteries of Opium Reveal?d. London: for Richard Smith, 1700. FIRST EDITION, of one of the earliest English-language works on opium. Includes discussions on cultivation, preparation, use and abuse, intoxication, addiction, and withdrawal. RARE: often seen with the 1701 date, this first edition dated 1700 last appeared in the rooms in 1981. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 282-84; Waring, p. 586. A Horowitz high spot.