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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Hunter's treatise on venereal disease
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Four works on Venereal Diseases. Comprises HUNTER, JOHN. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease. London: sold at No. 13, Castle-Street, Leicester-Square [i.e. the author], 1786. First edition, the variant with p. 134 ending "spasmodic/affection," no known priority. Period brown calf. 10 1/4 x 8 inches (26 x 20.5 cm); xii, 398, 7 ff. (text accompanying plates), 12 pp. index. The binding somewhat worn, rebacked but joints now starting again; And three other works, two of which (one by Colles, the other by James Boyle) are on the uses of mercury as a specific for syphilis, the third a 1725 translation into French of a work by Deidier partly on venereal diseases. Various bindings. Wear.
The first work is Blake, p. 226; Garrison-Morton 5197; Norman 1117.
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[MEDICINE]
Four works on Venereal Diseases. Comprises HUNTER, JOHN. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease. London: sold at No. 13, Castle-Street, Leicester-Square [i.e. the author], 1786. First edition, the variant with p. 134 ending "spasmodic/affection," no known priority. Period brown calf. 10 1/4 x 8 inches (26 x 20.5 cm); xii, 398, 7 ff. (text accompanying plates), 12 pp. index. The binding somewhat worn, rebacked but joints now starting again; And three other works, two of which (one by Colles, the other by James Boyle) are on the uses of mercury as a specific for syphilis, the third a 1725 translation into French of a work by Deidier partly on venereal diseases. Various bindings. Wear.
The first work is Blake, p. 226; Garrison-Morton 5197; Norman 1117.
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