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DRAKE, Daniel (1785-1852). A Systematic Treatise ... on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America, Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith, 1850 (First Series) & Philadelhia: Lipincott, Grambo, 1854 (Second Series), 2 volumes, large 8°, 19 lithographed maps in volume I, one folding (this re-hinged on linen, most maps lightly browned on recto and with stamp on verso, perforation to titles and other institutional markings, one gathering in vol. I pulled, pp. 117-118 with noticeable tear at outer margin, occasional creasing, title and preliminaries to vol. II frayed at edges), blue buckram. [GM 1777:."Vol. 2 posthumously published as 2nd series ... this classical contribution to the social history of N. America includes the most important work on the natural history of malaria published up to that time"; Norman 654; Sabin 20825] Provenance: Dr. F. Bry from Wm. Isenberg, 1870 (inscription on front blank); JCL (2)