Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
FOTHERGILL, JOHN. A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fothergill; 2 folding engraved plates (depiction of Winter's bark plant and portrait of Peter Collinson). [8], xx, [4], 661, [3] pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf with morocco lettering piece; typewritten description tipped to back of portrait. Bookplates of John Mitchinson Carlisle and O. O. Fisher. London: John Walder, 1781

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first collected edition. Fothergill gave the original description of facial neuralgia and the first authoritative account of diphtheria and scarlatinal angina, which are reprinted here; he also gave the first accurate description of migraine. See Garrison-Morton 1774, 4516, 4517, 5049, 5077.