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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Medicine, Four Titles in Four Volumes, 18th-19th Century.
Including: Jan Swammerdam's (1637-1680) Tractatus Physico-Anatomico-Medicus de Respiratione usuque Pulmonum, Leiden: Wishoff, 1738, quarto, extra engraved title bound before typographical title, untrimmed throughout, some foxing, folding plate, contemporary half parchment and speckled paper boards;
Richard Mead's (1673-1754) De Variolis et Morbillis Liber, London: Brindley, 1747, first edition, octavo, author's presentation copy, with inscription, "From the Author" on ffep,1 3/4 inch trimmed from head of half-title, likely one of the 150 "fine" issues, with ms. note, "Grand papier" above presentation inscription, full contemporary calf gilt, front hinge starting;
Tissot's L'Inoculation Justifiée, Lausanne: Marc-Michel Bousquet & Cie., 1754, 12mo, bound in contemporary speckled paper with gilt-lettered spine label;
[and] John Bell's (1763-1820) The Principles of Surgery, London: for Longman et al., 1815, volume three only, illustrated, large quarto,bound in full contemporary marbled sheep with green and red spine labels. (4)
