MEDICAL HISTORIES
(i) FREIND, John (1675-1728). The History of Physick from the time of Galen to the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, London: for J. Walthoe, 1725-26, 8°, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (titles with small perforation, accession no. on second leaf of each volume, O3 of vol. I slightly soiled at foot), contemporary panelled calf (spine of vol. II rubbed, both spines with John Crerar markings) [Blake p. 161]
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(i) FREIND, John (1675-1728). The History of Physick from the time of Galen to the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, London: for J. Walthoe, 1725-26, 8°, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (titles with small perforation, accession no. on second leaf of each volume, O3 of vol. I slightly soiled at foot), contemporary panelled calf (spine of vol. II rubbed, both spines with John Crerar markings) [Blake p. 161]
(ii) LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744-1815). History of the Origin of Medicine. An oration delivered at the anniversary meeting of the medical society of London, January 19, 1778, London: by J. Phillips for E. and C. Dilly, 1778, 4°, engraved plate by William Battersby after Sarah Stone in duplicate, the second copy hand-coloured (but torn along one fold, 2P1 affected by small scorch mark), modern buckram Provenance: John McLeman (title inscription); Bibliotheca Regia Hafniensis (label); JCL (gift of Dr. James G. Kiernan) [Blake p. 268]
(iii) AIKIN, John (1747-1822) Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain from the revival of literature to the time of Harvey, London: for Joseph Johnson, 1780, 8° (block broken at G8 and T1, occasional stains, lacks binding) [Blake p. 6] Provenance: Robert Troup Paine Harvard College (title inscription); JCL
(iv) WISE, Thomas Alexander. Review of the History of Medicine, London: J. Churchill, 1867, 2 volumes, 8° (title to vol. II torn at lower margin and rather poorly repaired, library markings), vol. I: original cloth (inner hinges split, corners worn), vol. II: red buckram. (6)
(ii) LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744-1815). History of the Origin of Medicine. An oration delivered at the anniversary meeting of the medical society of London, January 19, 1778, London: by J. Phillips for E. and C. Dilly, 1778, 4°, engraved plate by William Battersby after Sarah Stone in duplicate, the second copy hand-coloured (but torn along one fold, 2P1 affected by small scorch mark), modern buckram Provenance: John McLeman (title inscription); Bibliotheca Regia Hafniensis (label); JCL (gift of Dr. James G. Kiernan) [Blake p. 268]
(iii) AIKIN, John (1747-1822) Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain from the revival of literature to the time of Harvey, London: for Joseph Johnson, 1780, 8° (block broken at G8 and T1, occasional stains, lacks binding) [Blake p. 6] Provenance: Robert Troup Paine Harvard College (title inscription); JCL
(iv) WISE, Thomas Alexander. Review of the History of Medicine, London: J. Churchill, 1867, 2 volumes, 8° (title to vol. II torn at lower margin and rather poorly repaired, library markings), vol. I: original cloth (inner hinges split, corners worn), vol. II: red buckram. (6)