11-17-201311-17-2013
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November 17, 2013 11:00 AMCalender
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Medical Books, English, Three Volumes, 1672-1698.

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$360$300
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2687BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 17, 2013 11:00AM

Description:

Medical Books, English, Three Volumes, 1672-1698.
Lazare Riviere (1589-1655) The Practice of Physick [London, 1672?], folio, lacking the title page and all preliminaries before the table, date inferred from the list of "Books lately Imprinted" on the last leaf of the contents page, not collated, incomplete, boards tattered with loss, text water stained.
[with] Sir Thomas Browne's (1605-1682) Religio Medici, London: for Scot, Basset, Wright, and Chiswell, 1682, octavo, eighth edition, with the frontispiece, contemporary boards, a.e.g., a large copy, poorly rebacked, not collated.
[and] William Salmon's (1644-1713) Ars Chirurgica, London: Dawks, 1698, octavo, 1,352 pages, second edition, title page and preliminary leaves torn with loss, folding plate half missing, eleven of twelve full-page illustrations present, the first few with losses in the lower outside corner; bound in contemporary boards, with loosening and loss to the leather covering, ex-library, with stamp to title, not collated. (3)
Estimate $300-500


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Keywords

London, Thomas Browne, William Salmon