Lot 360
Fracostoro, Girolamo
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
£3,000
Description
Syphilis: or A Poetical History of the French Disease. Written in Latin by Fracastorius. And now Attempted in English by N. Tate. London: Jacob Tonson, 1668. First English edition, 8vo, [20], 84, eighteenth century half calf, license leaf before title, a few running titles just shaved, slight spotting and discolouration, couple of rustholes affecting a letter, binding rubbed and soiled, [ESTC R24339]
Footnote
Note: First English edition. Rare. For over two centuries this translation remained the most widely read English version of Syphilis, sive Morbus Gallicus.