Medicine, 3 volumes, comprising Malpighi, Marcello
[Opera omnia
£300
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
London: R. Scott & G. Wells, 1686]. Folio, 2 volumes in one, lacking title and frontispiece to volume 1, some spotting, first plate with contemporary inscription on verso of Charles Hobbs, Henstridge, Somerset, sectional title of De Ovo Incubato detached; 102 (of 123) engraved plates, first 2 leaves stained and loose, one plate misbound, one plate loose, contemporary calf, very worn; Arbuthnot, John Practical Rules of Diet in the various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies. London, 1732. 8vo, calf, lacks upper board, a little light dust soiling; Traill, Thomas Stewart Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1836. First edition, 8vo; [bound with] [Idem] Suggestions for the Medico-Legal Examination of Dead Bodies. Edinburgh: A. Smellie, [1839], the author's copy with his bookplate, contemporary half calf, worn, upper cover virtually detached; sold not subject to return (3)