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LANCISI, Giovanni Maria. De noxiis paludum effluviis, eorumque remediis. Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1717.
4o (233 x 174 mm). One engraved folding map. (Some minor marginal browning, otherwise fine and crisp.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt.
FIRST EDITION. "Lancisi suggested that since malaria disappears after drainage it was due to some sort of poison emanating from marshes and possibly transmitted by mosquitoes. He planned a drainage scheme for marshy regions"--Garrison-Morton 5232. Heirs of Hippocrates 447; NLM/Blake, p. 254; Osler 3151; Wellcome III, p. 441.
[With:] LANCISI. Dissertatio historica de bovilla peste, ex campaniae finibus anno MDCCXIII. Latio importata...cui accedit consilium de equorum epidemia, quae Romae grassata est anno MDCCXII. Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1715. 4o. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards. FIRST EDITION of this rare work on the cattle plague and an epidemic among horses that struck Rome in 1712. NLM/Blake, p. 254; Wellcome III, p. 441. (2)
4o (233 x 174 mm). One engraved folding map. (Some minor marginal browning, otherwise fine and crisp.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt.
FIRST EDITION. "Lancisi suggested that since malaria disappears after drainage it was due to some sort of poison emanating from marshes and possibly transmitted by mosquitoes. He planned a drainage scheme for marshy regions"--Garrison-Morton 5232. Heirs of Hippocrates 447; NLM/Blake, p. 254; Osler 3151; Wellcome III, p. 441.
[With:] LANCISI. Dissertatio historica de bovilla peste, ex campaniae finibus anno MDCCXIII. Latio importata...cui accedit consilium de equorum epidemia, quae Romae grassata est anno MDCCXII. Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1715. 4o. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards. FIRST EDITION of this rare work on the cattle plague and an epidemic among horses that struck Rome in 1712. NLM/Blake, p. 254; Wellcome III, p. 441. (2)