Item #25577 Terrible Tractoration!! A Poetical Petition Against Galvanising Trumpery, And The Perkinistic Institution. In Four Cantos. Most Respectfully Addressed To The Royal College Physicians. Christopher Caustic, pseud. Thomas Green Fessenden.
Terrible Tractoration!! A Poetical Petition Against Galvanising Trumpery, And The Perkinistic Institution. In Four Cantos. Most Respectfully Addressed To The Royal College Physicians

Terrible Tractoration!! A Poetical Petition Against Galvanising Trumpery, And The Perkinistic Institution. In Four Cantos. Most Respectfully Addressed To The Royal College Physicians

New York: Samuel Stansbury, 1804. Very Good. Item #25577

New York: Samuel Stansbury, 1804. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 192 pp., with half title; four plates, complete. Contemporary calf with gilt stamping and red title label to spine. Light scuffing and edgewear and binding sound. Recent ownership stamp to front pastedown and contemporary ownership inscription of Rick Waterman to front fly leaf.

First American edition of Fessenden's poetic satire of the medical profession, related to the patent of metal tractors by Fessenden's acquaintance Benjamin Douglas Perkins. Nathaniel Hawthorne called Terrible Tractation "a work of strange and grotesque ideas aptly expressed: its rhymes are of a most singular character, yet fitting each to each as accurately as echoes."

Price: $200.00