JENNER, Edward (1749-1823). Disquisitio de caussis et effectibus variolarum vaccinarum. Translated by Aloysio Careno. Vienna: Camesina, 1799. 4o (267 x 207 mm). 4 engraved plates by John Neidl after Edward Pearce, color-printed in sanguine and enhanced with some hand-coloring (some marginal staining to plate 1, plate 2 loose, some minor foxing to text). Later pink boards, some edges uncut (joints starting, boards scraped and slightly soiled). Provenance: Dr. H. Molliere (ownership inscription in pencil on front cover). Jenner's work on smallpox led to "one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine" (Garrison-Morton) in the announcement in 1980 by the World Health Organization that natural smallpox had been eradicated. His studies were "the basis of the modern science of immunology" (PMM 250). [Bound with:] Edward JENNER. Continuatio disquisitionis et observationum in variolas vaccinas. Translated by Aloysio Careno. Vienna: Camesina, 1801. (some very light foxing to title-page).

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JENNER, Edward (1749-1823). Disquisitio de caussis et effectibus variolarum vaccinarum. Translated by Aloysio Careno. Vienna: Camesina, 1799. 4o (267 x 207 mm). 4 engraved plates by John Neidl after Edward Pearce, color-printed in sanguine and enhanced with some hand-coloring (some marginal staining to plate 1, plate 2 loose, some minor foxing to text). Later pink boards, some edges uncut (joints starting, boards scraped and slightly soiled). Provenance: Dr. H. Molliere (ownership inscription in pencil on front cover). Jenner's work on smallpox led to "one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine" (Garrison-Morton) in the announcement in 1980 by the World Health Organization that natural smallpox had been eradicated. His studies were "the basis of the modern science of immunology" (PMM 250). [Bound with:] Edward JENNER. Continuatio disquisitionis et observationum in variolas vaccinas. Translated by Aloysio Careno. Vienna: Camesina, 1801. (some very light foxing to title-page).

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