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Lot 211
* A miniature ivory mounted serpentine front chest of three drawers, Indian, Vizagapatam, 19th c., with canted corners, inverted curved sides, on four short turned ivory feet, the whole profusely decorated with penwork incl. classical style foliage and floral swags, hatching, etc. (some minor damage), height 12.5cm, width 17cm (5 x 6.5ins) (1)
Lot 51
Woodall (John) [The surgeons mate 1639 Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest ye vses of the instruments the vertues and operations of ye medicines w[i]th ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott...] second edition engraved portrait of Charles I on horseback and 4 plates 1 folding folding letterpress table woodcut illustration lacking title portrait laid down on preceeding endpaper and with ink writing showing through from verso repaired tear to folding plate no loss 2 plates trimmed to within platemark 3O4 torn at foot with loss stained a few tears within text but with no loss ?later mottled calf spine in compartments later ink label to spine foot of spine worn rubbed [GM 2144; Krivatsy 13141; STC 25963] folio [Rob: Young [J. Legate? and E. Purslowe] for Nicholas Bourne] [1639]. ***The second edition but the first to include all of Wodall`s works. The author was surgeon-general to the East India Company. He was one of the first doctors to realise the importance of citrus fruits as a preventative measure against scurvy. Provenance: John Bull of Yalding Kent with the cost of the book above (17th century ink inscriptions to front free endpaper); Charles Broster (2 17th century ink inscriptions). .
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