Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(MEDICINE.) Chisholm, Colin. An Essay on the Malignant Pestilential Fever Introduced into the West Indian Islands. . . . to which is Annexed, a Description of the American Yellow Fever, which Prevailed at Charleston in 1748. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn; toned with moderate foxing. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1799

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first american edition. "Chisholm was apparently the first to observe the mode of transmission of the Guinea worm"--Garrison-Morton 5336.3 (re 1795 London original edition). Austin 460; Evans 35302; Sabin 12837.