Lot 218
Cholera
Six works
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Keir, James. A Treatise on Cholera, containing the Author's Experience of the Epidemic known by that name, as it prevailed in the City of Moscow in Autumn 1830, and Winter 1831. Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1832. First edition, inscribed ‘Revd David Umpleby, with the author’s compliments 12 Augt 1845' on the title-page, 8vo, original boards, rebacked, half-title. leaf of manuscript errata signed ‘J. Keir’ bound in at rear, initial quire loose;
Paine, Martyn. Letters on the Cholera Asphyxia, as it has appeared in the City of New-York. New York: Collins & Hannay, 1832. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, half-title, spotting, unopened in places;
Kennedy, James. The History of the Contagious Cholera London: James Cochrane, 1831. First edition, 8vo, later library cloth, 2 engraved folding maps, faint ink-stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute to title-page;
and 3 others: John Bell and Francis Condie, All the Material Facts in the History of Epidemic Cholera, Philadelphia, 1832 (first edition, original cloth-backed boards with printed label); Bisset Hakwins, History of the Epidemic Spasmodic Cholera of Russia, 1831 (first edition, 8vo, library cloth, BMI ink-stamp to title-page; and one other similar
