JENNER, Edward. Indagaçao sobre as causas, e effeitos das bexigas de vacca ... de vaccina, Lisbon: na regia officina typographica, 1803. Small 4°, half title, 4 engraved plates, printed in colour, one folding letterpress table at the end (plates very lightly browned), contemporary green calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece (head and tail of spine chipped, part of leather torn away from lower cover, corners scuffed, very rubbed). Second Portuguese edition.

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JENNER, Edward. Indagaçao sobre as causas, e effeitos das bexigas de vacca ... de vaccina, Lisbon: na regia officina typographica, 1803. Small 4°, half title, 4 engraved plates, printed in colour, one folding letterpress table at the end (plates very lightly browned), contemporary green calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece (head and tail of spine chipped, part of leather torn away from lower cover, corners scuffed, very rubbed). Second Portuguese edition.

"One of the greatest triumphs in history of medicine" (GM), and "the basis of the modern science of immunology" (PMM).