Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
FLOYER, SIR JOHN. Medicina Gerocomica; or, The Galenic Art of Preserving Old Men's Healths xviii, [2], 157, [1] pages; lacks final ad leaf. 8vo, 19th-century artless 1/4 cloth; light dampstaining in upper margin of opening leaves, title soiled, inscription abraded with resulting hole in blank upper outer corner, some browning and soiling. London: J. Isted, 1725

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Second edition of the first English-language work on geriatrics. Garrison-Morton 1595 (original edition, preceding year).