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WEBSTER, NOAH.
A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential
Diseases.
xii, [9]-348; [4], 352 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 213x133 mm, contemporary tree
sheep, spine ends worn, covers detached; occasional light toning and offsetting.
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1799
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION
of the first American work on general epidemiology. Garrison-Morton
1675.1. Austin 2023.
383
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WEIDMANN, JOHANN PETER.
De necrosi ossium.
15 engraved plates. [6],
60 pages * WENZEL, CARL.
Über die Krankheiten am Rückgrathe.
8 etched plates.
xxiv, 460 pages. Together, 2 volumes. Folio, Weidmann 439x285 mm in contemporary
1
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2
sheep, spine imperfect, scattered foxing lightly affecting plates, Rush Medical College
Library stamp on title, ink accession number on verso; Wenzel 414x288 mm in modern
boards, marginal foxing throughout, dampstaining on plates and in lower inner corner of
opening leaves, clean tear across title repaired on verso.
Frankfurt am Main: impensis Andreaeis, 1793;
Bamberg: Wilhelm Ludwig Wesché, 1824
[300/500]
FIRST EDITIONS
of works on diseases of bones and the spine.
384
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WILLIS, THOMAS.
The Remaining Medical Works . . . The First Part.
Engraved frontispiece portrait and 15 (of 16) plates; lacks plate to face page 94 in The
Anatomy of the Brain. [12], 178; [4], 192; [8], 106, [30] pages, but last leaf of second part
trimmed and bound at end of third part; lacks C1. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 310x196
mm, old cloth, spine ends chipped, front cover detached; marginal soiling and dampstaining
through most of volume, scattered marginalia, ink blots, and scrawls, portrait trimmed to
plate mark and mounted, general title heavily soiled, wormtrail through blank outer mar-
gin of several leaves toward beginning, plates facing page 183 and 190 in The Description . . .
of the Nerves torn and restored with image loss, index leaf (g)1 trimmed in upper and
outer margins slightly affecting text.
London: T. Dring et al., 1681
[500/1,000]
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
of writings including Willis’s 1664 Cerebri anatome, “the most
complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work
that coined the term ‘neurology’”—Garrison-Morton 1378 (original edition). Krivatsy
13007; Wing W2855A.
385
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ZACUTUS, ABRAHAM.
De praxi medica admiranda libri tres.
[48], 492,
[28] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 169x104 mm, contemporary vellum boards; first and
last several leaves frayed along fore edges, wormhole through most of volume expanding
substantially through around 30 leaves toward end with text loss. Title inscribed: “M. Alb.
Kyper me possidet ex Autoris liberalitate.”
Amsterdam: Cornelis van Breughel for Hendrick Laurensz, 1634
[200/300]
FIRST EDITION
of a collection of case histories by a Lisbon-born Marrano physician who prac-
ticed in Amsterdam. EJ XVI, 909-10; Krivatsy 13202.
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