MECKEL, Johann Friedrich, the elder (1724-1774). Tractatus de morbo hernioso congenito singulari & complicato feliciter curato, Berlin: F. Nicolai, 1772, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY to Jean Henri Samuel FORMEY (dedication leaf with perforation mark and de-accession stamp on blank verso, accession no. stamped at foot of *1), contemporary calf (spine lacking, covers detached), blue patterned Dutch endpapers. [Blake p. 296; Waller 6409] Provenance: "Viro Reverendo Doctissimo ac Spectatissimo Formey Amico ac Confratri Suo Academico Longe Aedamatissimo Opusculam hoc Observantiae et amoris caussa offert Meckel" (author's inscription on front blank); E.G. Sager 1824 (inscription on title verso); Baum gryph. 1846 (inscription on front free endpaper); JCL (Senn Collection) (2)

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MECKEL, Johann Friedrich, the elder (1724-1774). Tractatus de morbo hernioso congenito singulari & complicato feliciter curato, Berlin: F. Nicolai, 1772, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY to Jean Henri Samuel FORMEY (dedication leaf with perforation mark and de-accession stamp on blank verso, accession no. stamped at foot of *1), contemporary calf (spine lacking, covers detached), blue patterned Dutch endpapers. [Blake p. 296; Waller 6409] Provenance: "Viro Reverendo Doctissimo ac Spectatissimo Formey Amico ac Confratri Suo Academico Longe Aedamatissimo Opusculam hoc Observantiae et amoris caussa offert Meckel" (author's inscription on front blank); E.G. Sager 1824 (inscription on title verso); Baum gryph. 1846 (inscription on front free endpaper); JCL (Senn Collection) (2)

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Jean Henri Samuel Formey (1711-1797), the recipient of Meckel's gift. was himself the author of a number of medical works including Essai sur la perfection and Systeme du vrai bonheur (both Utrecht, 1751), Mélanges philosophiques (Leiden, 1754) and Trostgründe für Personen, die ein sieches Leben führen (Leipzig, 1758). The friendship between the two doctors must have been warm for, after Meckel's death in 1774, he also published Eloge de Mr. le Professeur Meckel (Berlin, 1775).

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