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lately deceased
AIKIN, John. Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain, from the revival of literature to the time of Harvey, London: Joseph Johnson, 1780, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front blank inscribed: "Tho. Pennant Esq from the Author", with publisher's advertisments (first leaves lightly spotted, margin of C4-8 browned), contemporary half calf and marbled boards (extremities rubbed). [Blake p. 6; GM 6705; Norman 26 ; Wellcome II, p. 19]
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AIKIN, John. Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain, from the revival of literature to the time of Harvey, London: Joseph Johnson, 1780, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front blank inscribed: "Tho. Pennant Esq from the Author", with publisher's advertisments (first leaves lightly spotted, margin of C4-8 browned), contemporary half calf and marbled boards (extremities rubbed). [Blake p. 6; GM 6705; Norman 26 ; Wellcome II, p. 19]
Provenance
First collection of British medical biographies inscribed to Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) "a representative of the best of the gentleman-naturalists who flourished in the late eighteenth century and who sought to comprehend all of nature". He contributed "to organizing, popularizing, and promoting the study of natural history" (DSB).