Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
SPENGLER, LORENZ. Briefe welche einige Erfahrungen der electrischen Wirkungen in Krankheiten enthalten, nebst einer ausführlichen Beschreibung der electrischen Maschine. 2 folding engraved plates. 102, [2] pages, including final blank. Small 8vo, modern marbled boards; contents toned, old scored inscription in blank lower margin of title, A2 and A3 transposed, light dampstain in upper outer corners in second half of volume. Copenhagen: widow of Rothe, 1754

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first edition of an epistolary account of Spengler's electrotherapeutic experiments using a machine of his own invention to treat patients for various complaints.