HALES, Stephen (1677-1761). Philosophical Experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea. London: W. Innys, R. Manby and T. Woodward, 1739. 8° (198 x 125mm). Half-title, one engraved plate. (Occasional light spotting). Contemporary half calf, gilt spine (head and tail of spine chipped, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NLM/Blake p.192; Wellcome III, p.194.

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HALES, Stephen (1677-1761). Philosophical Experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea. London: W. Innys, R. Manby and T. Woodward, 1739. 8° (198 x 125mm). Half-title, one engraved plate. (Occasional light spotting). Contemporary half calf, gilt spine (head and tail of spine chipped, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NLM/Blake p.192; Wellcome III, p.194.

HULME, Nathaniel. Libellus de natura, causa, curationeque scorbuti ... to which is annexed, a proposal for preventing the scurvy in the British Navy. London: Thomas Cadell, 1768. 8°. With the blank G6. (Some spotting throughout). Contemporary diced calf gilt (rebacked with olf spine relaid). FIRST EDITION. Not in NLM/Blake or Wellcome catalogue but one copy in Wellcome Collection online.

With Nathaniel Hulme's A Safe and Easy Remedy proposed for the Relief of the Stone and Gravel, the Scurvy, Gout, &c. and ... extemporaneous Method of Impreganting Water ... with fixed Air (London, 1778, disbound). FIRST EDITION; and William Jervey's Practical Thoughts on the Prevention and Cure of the Scurvy (London, 1769). FIRST EDITION. (4)

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