Feb 10, 2005 - Sale 2032

Sale 2032 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(MEDICINE.) Tytler, James. A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow Fever. Folding table. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked with cloth, worn; browning; early owner's signature on the title (J. B. Hamilton). Salem, 1799

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Signed on the title by noted surgeon John B. Hamilton (1847-98), who as the surgeon-general of the Marine Hospital Service stopped a yellow fever outbreak in 1878 by enforcing a strict quarantine. Sabin 97656; Austin 1940.