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WEBSTER, Noah (1758-1843). A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1799.
2 volumes, 8o (212 x 132 mm). (Occasional browning and foxing.) Contemporary tree sheep (rebacked in morocco, preserving old labels). Provenance: Dr. Daniel Greenleaf (1762-1853), brother-in-law of lexicographer Noah Webster, Jr. (presentation inscription from the author on each title); Dr. Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate, his sale, part II, Swann, 5 April 1979, lot 981).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WEBSTER TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW on the title-page in each volume: "Danl Greenleaf, from his Brother and Friend the Author." Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf on October 26, 1789. Her brother, Daniel, was a physician and druggist of Quincy and Boston, Mass.
"'The best general summary of epidemiological opinion at the beginning of the nineteenth century; and few works surpass it as a compendium of earlier speculations in this filed'. (Winslow)... Osler considered... [Webster's Brief History] the most important medical work written in this country by a layman"--Garrison-Morton 1675.1. A FINE FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY. (2)
2 volumes, 8o (212 x 132 mm). (Occasional browning and foxing.) Contemporary tree sheep (rebacked in morocco, preserving old labels). Provenance: Dr. Daniel Greenleaf (1762-1853), brother-in-law of lexicographer Noah Webster, Jr. (presentation inscription from the author on each title); Dr. Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate, his sale, part II, Swann, 5 April 1979, lot 981).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WEBSTER TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW on the title-page in each volume: "Danl Greenleaf, from his Brother and Friend the Author." Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf on October 26, 1789. Her brother, Daniel, was a physician and druggist of Quincy and Boston, Mass.
"'The best general summary of epidemiological opinion at the beginning of the nineteenth century; and few works surpass it as a compendium of earlier speculations in this filed'. (Winslow)... Osler considered... [Webster's Brief History] the most important medical work written in this country by a layman"--Garrison-Morton 1675.1. A FINE FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY. (2)