Lot 434

Public Health and Medicine

Public Health and Medicine

A collection of 24 pamphlets and offprints

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography

Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST

£1,625

Description

Plague A certificate, c.120x150mm, seemingly granting the residents of a plague-free city to travel, in Italian, dated 1624; [Drop-head Title] A prayer, proper to be used by all good Christians in private, for averting God’s judgements from this nation, and more particularly for keeping us from the plague, which is broke out in France. [London: s.n., 1720?] Small 4to, without covers, ESTC T90580 recording only one copy; The Privy Council Papers Relative to the Disease Called Cholera Spasmodica in India... London: Winchester and Varnham, 1831. 8vo, blue wrappers; Peggs, James A Cry from the Tombs... London: published by the Author, 1840. 8vo, brown wrappers; Winslow, Forbes The Incubation of Insanity. London: S. Highley, 1846. 8vo, author's inscription to title, blue wrappers; Cory, Robert Notes on the Examination of the Bodies of Fifty-Eight Children... [London, n.d.] 8vo, grey boards; Brady, Cheyne The History of the Hospital for Incurables. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1875. 12mo, original purple wrappers; Deputy Surgeon-General Bostock & Barrington, Sir Vincent Kay The Hospital and Ambulance Organisation of the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the Removal and Isolation of Infectious Disease... London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1893. 8vo, original blue paper wrappers; Brownlee, John Observations on the Aerial Transmission of the Enteric Fever Poison. Glasgow: Philosophical Society, 1897-8. 8vo, grey boards; and 15 others (24)