Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
THACKRAH, CHARLES TURNER. The Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades and Professions, and of Civic States and Habits of Living, on Health and Longevity. Integral ad leaf at end. 8vo, modern black buckram; leaf with an early 20th-century owner's notes bound before title. Rear blank inscribed and signed by thackrah. London, 1832

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Second edition, substantially enlarged, of a work first published the year before. "The first systematic publication in Great Britain on industrial disease and its prevention. For comprehensiveness, first-hand clinical experience, and constructive proposals for improvements, Thackrah's monograph is superior to that of Ramazzini"--Garrison-Morton 2123 (original edition).