COTUGNO, Domenico (1736-1822). A Treatise on the nervous sciatica, or, Nervous Hip Gout. London: for J. Wilkie, 1775.

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COTUGNO, Domenico (1736-1822). A Treatise on the nervous sciatica, or, Nervous Hip Gout. London: for J. Wilkie, 1775.

8o (205 x 125 mm). Engraved frontispiece plate (upper margin cut out). (Scattered soiling and occasional pale spotting). 19th-century American half sheep, marbled boards (minor wear to extremities). Provenance: D. Green (signature on final leaf of contents page); Laura A. Greene (owner's stamp on flyleaf).

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. See Garrison-Morton 4515; Norman 523.

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COTUGNO, Domenico. De sedibus variolarum UNTAGMAi. Vienna: Rudolph Graeffer, 1771. 8o (172 x 99 mm). Engraved plate. 18th-century French mottled calf, spine gilt. Second edition of the "first clear pathological study of the skin lesions produced by smallpox" (Norman). The first edition was published in Naples in 1769. Wellcome II, p.398; Norman 524. (2)