Scarce and sought in any state, this is a particularly charming original quarter leather early 19th century binding, and then being the copy of cousin of Jonas Rishel with multiple examples of M. S. Rissel's personal stamp.
Auctions without provenance generally fetch $2,000-$3,000 at auction.
Rishel, Jonas. The Indian Physician, Containing a New System of Practice, Founded on Medical Plants. Together with a Description of Their Properties, Localities and Method of Using, and Preparing Them. A Treaties on the Causes and Symptoms of Diseases, Which are Incident to Human Nature, with a Safe and Sovereign Cure for them and the Mode oe Treatment, in any Stage of Disease. For the Use of Families and Practitioners of Medicine. New Berlin, Penn. Printed for the Author and Proprietor, by Joseph Miller. 1828. 132pp.
A good + copy, bound in quarter leather, lightly shaken, with moderate to heavy foxing, and on a pair of pages, the boards are upside down.
