FOWLER, O.S. [Orson Squire]

Creative and Sexual Science: or Manhood, Womanhood, and Their Mutual Interrelations; Love, its Laws, Power, Etc.; Selection, or Mutual Adaptation; Courtship, Married Life, and Perfect Children [&c]

Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis: National Publishing Company, (1875). First Edition. Large, thick octavo (24cm). Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; xxxiv,35-1065,[9]pp; text illus, 1 plate leaf; frontispiece portrait. Tight and straight, with, a trifle rubbed and sunned with minor fraying to cloth at base of spine; internally clean and unmarked; a Very Good copy. A quite presentable copy of a work usually found well-worn.

A mélange of pseudoscientific sexual advice culled from the lectures of the amazingly popular O.S. Fowler, whose works on popular medicine, phrenology, eugenics, and sexual hygiene were some of the best-selling works of their day. The Dictionary of American Biography writes of Fowler: "Throughout middle life (1850-1870) he spent most of his time in extensive and lucrative lecture trips of the United States and Canada, charming ignorant audiences equally by his assumption of scientific knowledge and by the extreme sentimentality of his outlook on life" (quoted in Atwater, I:355). ATWATER 1280.

Price: $150.00

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