Lot Essay
An anonymous satire, showing "that quacks were ready to undertake what the legitimate practioner could not cure" [Heirs of Hippocrates]
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Medicina flagellata; or, The Doctor Scarify'd, London: J. Bateman and J. Nicks, 1721, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, additional title with engraved vignette (both titles with large perforation stamp and de-accession stamps on verso, accesion number stamped at head of Preface, some light creasing and occasional marginal soiling), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked in red morocco, spine now worn, front joints cracked), bookplate of Mortimer Frank. [Blake p. 297; Waller 6421]
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Medicina flagellata; or, The Doctor Scarify'd, London: J. Bateman and J. Nicks, 1721, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, additional title with engraved vignette (both titles with large perforation stamp and de-accession stamps on verso, accesion number stamped at head of Preface, some light creasing and occasional marginal soiling), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked in red morocco, spine now worn, front joints cracked), bookplate of Mortimer Frank. [Blake p. 297; Waller 6421]