Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LIND, JAMES. An Essay on Diseases incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates . . . Second Edition, Enlarged and Improved. xv, [1], 375, [9] pages. 8vo, contemporary sheep, brittle, spine chipped at top, joints cracked, cords intact; contents toned and conspicuously dampstained, blank upper outer corner torn off title, front free endpaper lacking. Early signatures and marginalia of Elisha J. Hall. London: T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1771

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"Lind came near to discovering the connection between malaria and mosquitoes . . . the above book is one of the more important early works on tropical medicine"--Garrison-Morton 2264.