Ventes live - Lot 391
[Medicine]
Opera medica [...] Editio novissima [...] [And] MUSGRAVE, William.- De arthritide anomala, sive interna, dissertatio. [And] IDEM.- De arthritide symptomatica dissertatio.
SYDENHAM, Thomas
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Description du lot
Geneva, Fratres de Tournes, 1736
4 pts in 1 vol. sm. 4to: [6]-711-[1 bl.], [8]-496, [8]-168, [8]-88 pp. (pale foxing, some clear waterstains, margins of the title-page of the 2nd part partly gnawed without loss of text).
Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-tooled spine with raised bands, red edges (rubbed, lacks of leather on bottom turn-in and corners, wormholes on the spine, joint partly split).
Revised edition (1st ed.: Geneva, 1716) of the collected medical works of the English physician Sydenham (1624-1689), a founder of epidemiology, nicknamed the "English Hippocrates" of his time. With 2 additional treatises by Musgrave (1655-1721), also in revised editions, each with its own title-page, as in the other Geneva editions by De Tournes. Ref. Blake 442. - Bibl. Walleriana 9403-9404 (other ed.). - Not in Garrison & Morton. Prov. Desnos (ms. mention).