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Le Dran, Henri-François (1685-1770) Observations in Surgery.
London: Printed for J. Hodges at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, 1739.
First edition in English, translated by John Sparrow, octavo, illustrated with two folding engravings, bound in contemporary speckled English calf, ruled in gilt with original label, a little worn, generally good, 8 x 4 3/4 in.; [together with] Prestwich's Dissertation on Mineral, Animal, & Vegetable Poisons, London: for F. Newberry, 1775, by John Prestwich (1745-1796), first edition, octavo, engraved title, illustrated with eleven full-paged plates (ten of plants, the eleventh depicting two scorpions, poisonous toad, beetle, centipede, and snake), with lively accounts of poisoning and cures; bound in contemporary paneled calf, original red label, both joints cracked, front board just hanging on, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
Le Dran: ESTC T176869; Prestwich: ESTC T149634; Roscoe A425.
