Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 408

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
MEAD, RICHARD. A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods used to be used to prevent it . . . Eighth Edition, with large Additions.<> [8], xxxvi, 150 pages. Large 8vo, contemporary red morocco handsomely gilt. London: Sam. Buckley, 1722

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"The present treatise is one of the most important works in the history of public health because of its impact on theory of contagion"--Heirs of Hippocrates 769 (third edition). Garrison-Morton 5123 (1720 original edition).<