Clarke ' S Text - Book On Embalming - 1888 2nd Edition - Mortuary Science - FUNERALS
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Clarke's Text-Book of Embalming - Illustrating and Describing The Anatomy of the Human Body as is Needed by the Professional or Expert Embalmer... Springfield, OH: The Clarke Chemical Company, 1888. 67 pages + index, 6 color plates, and ads.
SECOND EDITION.
With information on the treatment of dead bodies as well as some methods of death (blood posioning...), as well as notes on funeral etiquette and ethics.
An extremely hard-to-find copy of an early manual on... embalming by J.H. Clarke, who owned The Clarke Chemical Works. There are advertisements for his company's products in the rear of the books.
Flyleaf has, in pencil, "J.O. Hagley [?] Funeral Director + Embalmer Hanibal MO Feb 1st 1893."
See condition notes above.
Will ship free Priority Mail.
SECOND EDITION.
With information on the treatment of dead bodies as well as some methods of death (blood posioning...), as well as notes on funeral etiquette and ethics.
An extremely hard-to-find copy of an early manual on... embalming by J.H. Clarke, who owned The Clarke Chemical Works. There are advertisements for his company's products in the rear of the books.
Flyleaf has, in pencil, "J.O. Hagley [?] Funeral Director + Embalmer Hanibal MO Feb 1st 1893."
See condition notes above.
Will ship free Priority Mail.
