Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CARPUE, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE. An Introduction to Electricity and Galvanism with Cases, shewing their Effects in the Cure of Diseases. 3 engraved plates. viii, 112 pages. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated October 1806 bound at end. 8vo, original boards, rebacked; scattered minor foxing. London: A. Phillips, 1803 [i. e., 1806]

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first edition, later issue. "One of the first works in the English language devoted entirely to medical electricity"--Garrison-Morton 1989. Wheeler Gift 646.