Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Sydenham, Thomas (1624-1689)
Methodus Curandi Febres, Propriis Observationibus Superstructa.

Amsterdam: Gerbrandum Schagen, 1666.

First continental edition of Sydenham's first book, published in the same year as the true first London edition, 12mo, A-D12, E8, in original paper boards, untrimmed throughout, with full margins; housed in a custom box (some waterstaining to contents, thumbing, contemporary ownership inscription, stamp to title, dog-eared pages, a good candidate for restoration), 6 x 3 1/2 in.

Heirs of Hippocrates 352; Garrison & Morton 2198; Biblotheca Osleriana 994.