Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DRAKE, DANIEL. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America. 19 maps and charts in Volume 1. Half-title in second volume, not called for in first. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's sheep, the first volume rebacked retaining original backstrip. Cincinnati, 1850-54

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first edition. " . . . a mine of information on the topography, meteorology, character of population, customs and diseases of the interior of North America" (DAB). Garrison-Morton 1777 ("includes the most important work on the natural history of malaria published up to that time"); Howes D469.