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Books - Marion, Frieda, & Werner, Norma. The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Half-Dolls, first edition, Paducah: Collector Books, 1979; Riley, Noel. Gifts for Good Children. The History of Children's China 1790-1890, first edition, Shepton Beauchamp: Dennis, 1991; and assorted other works on toys and collectable ceramics.
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British School 19th Century- "The Dace and Minnow"; together with five other plates from a first edition of Sir H Maxwell's British Fresh Water Fish, by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons, lithograph printed in colours heightened with gold and silver, 18x24cm., each, in hand-painted decorative frames and a further six hand-coloured engraved plates from Oliver Goldsmith's "A History of the Earth and Animated Nature", published by A Fullerton, 1856, (12)
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After Andy Warhol 1928-1987- "Marilyn Monroe"; after the original edition published by Sunday B Morning circa mid 1980's and bears 'Fill in your own signature' and 'Sunday B Morning' stamped in black ink, verso, on each, screenprint in colours, full sheet printed to the edges, full suite of ten images depicting Marilyn Monroe in various colour combinations, 91.2x91.2cm each, loose and boxed as issued,(10), (unframed). Note: "In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it. When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face the first Marilyns". (Andy Warhol)
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FRAGMENT OF A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF VITRUVIUS.The lot comprises eight sheets of paper of varying sizes containing fragments of an illustrated Italian translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture. Both the drawings and the writings are in the same brown ink, and appear to be by a single hand, mid sixteenth-century in character. Part of a watermark on Fragment 2 appears to be an anchor in a circle with a six-pointed star, a very common type in Italy throughout the sixteenth century. There is no other watermark evidence. Shreds of paper and glue stains towards the corners and edges of several fragments (such as 1r and 8v) indicate that after cutting down they were laid down in an album. Frag. 1 appears to retain the full width of the original page (c. 275 mm), while the height can be estimated from frag. 6 and frag. 7 to be about 400 mm (see below).Vitruvius' Ten Books, written c. 30-20 B.C. is the only substantive classical text on architecture, and became of critical importance in the Italian Renaissance when architects strove to revive architecture all'antica. This was not an easy task since Vitruvius looked to Greece for many of his exemplars and used many Greek architectural terms, which were not always applicable when understanding Roman ruins, as became apparent with the publication of the first illustrated edition by Fra Giovanni Giocondo of Verona in 1511. Giocondo's humanist scholarship is impeccable and his interpretation of Vitruvius' temple types follows the text to the letter, and yet the result for the in antis temple is nothing like the reality we know from the physical evidence. Already by 1520, the manuscript translation, prepared by the humanist Fabio Calvo for Raphael, included a plan correctly interpreting the in antis temple, and others appear in the drawings by Giovanni Battista da Sangallo added to a 1486 first edition of Vitruvius around 1530. Had the great project outlined in the famous letter of 1542 by Agostino de'Landi for a Vitruvian Academy to prepare a multi-volume critical edition, translation and commentary of the Ten Books been realised, Giocondo's errors may have been exposed sooner. However, the fact that his interpretations were followed in the great Italian translation and commentary of Daniele Barbaro of 1556, with illustrations by Andrea Palladio, ensured that they became virtually canonical until the eighteenth century.The present fragments all belong to the first three books of Vitruvius, and the drawings of the in antis temple are similar to those in Giocondo and Barbaro, although it is not clear if our fragments pre- or post-date the latter. That the artist was translating from the Giocondo edition or one of its successors is confirmed by the tree labeled 'suera' on frag. 5r, since it is the cork oak or quercus suber, which does not occur in printed editions earlier than 1511.Of particular interest are the views of Alexandria and Athens on frags 2v and 4v, both clearly modelled on ancient Rome, with buildings like the Colosseum and the Pantheon figuring in each. What at first sight appears to be the Castel S. Angelo on frag. 2v is probably intended to represent the Pharos at the harbour of Alexandria. The many apparent obelisks in the surrounding countryside are really pyramids. The artist certainly seems to have had direct knowledge of Rome, judging from the views of the in antis and prostyle temples in frags 6r and 7r. Vitruvius gives as his exemplar of a prostyle temple one dedicated to Jupiter and Faunus on the Tiber Island. Our artist labels the in antis 'Fauno' and the prostyle 'Giove' and among the buildings in the background are recognizable the two bridges to the island, the Ponte Cestio and the Ponte Fabricio.Of the seven temple types described in Vitruvius Bk. 2, chap. 3, four are represented here. Because the text for the prostyle temple appears on frag. 6r and the drawings on frag. 7r, while the drawings and text of the peripteral temple extend across frags 6v and 7v, we can be confident that the fragments originally formed part of the same folio. Equally, the absence of drawings of the amphiprostyle and pseudodipteral temples (for which the texts are at the bottom of frags 7r and 7v respectively) allows us to infer that the lower part of the folio is missing, while the last temple type, the hypaethral, would probably have been below the present frag. 8r.One feature of the style of architectural representation to which attention should be drawn is the use of perspective in the plans on frag. 6r and frag. 8v. Baldassare Peruzzi (who is said to have begun a commentary on Vitruvius himself) had experimented with perspectival plans in his project drawings for New St Peter's and his pupil, Sebastiano Serlio, gives instructions for constructing them in his Second Book: On Perspective, published in 1545. Another associate of Peruzzi, Antonio Labacco, makes use of them in his Libro appartenente all'architettura of 1552, before orthogonal plans became normative. It is possible, therefore that the artist may belong to the circle of Peruzzi, although there is nothing to prove a direct connection.We are grateful to Ian Campbell, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Edinburgh College of Art for the research and catalogue entry of the above lot.
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'The Circus': an extensive dinner service, designed for Clarice Cliff by Dame Laura Knight, circa 1934 each piece decorated with circus motifs within a border printed with crowd scenes and swags comprising: two vegetable tureens and covers with clown knops, four oval serving dishes in sizes, two sauce tureens, covers and stands, two sauce boats, nine side plates, ten dessert plates and twelve dinner plates puce printed mark, 'DESIGNED BY Laura Knight A.R.A., PRODUCED IN Bizarre by Clarice Cliff, WILKINSON LTD, ENGLAND, COPYRIGHT RESERVED, FIRST EDITION.' (47) Although small groups and individual pieces appear at auction on a fairly regular basis, it is unusual to find such a complete set. For further details, please see the 'In Focus' section at the beginning of the catalogue.
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Jagger Cedric - The Artistry of the English Watch, first edition 1988; Barder Richard C.R. - The Georgian Bracket Clock, 1714-1830, 1993 first edition; Rose Ronald E. - English Dial Clocks 1978 first edition; also three other hardback horological books and three exhibition catalogues compiled by Derek Roberts (9)
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Fleming, Ian. Casino Royale, first edition, London 1953. Cloth; Live and Let Die, second impression, London 1954. Cloth; Moonraker, first edition, London 1955. Cloth; Diamonds are Forever, first edition, London 1956. Dust wrapper, rubbed and creased at edges with small loss to head and foot of spine; From Russia With Love, first edition, London 1957. Cloth; Dr No, first edition, London 1958. Cloth; Goldfinger, first edition, London 1959. Dust wrapper, worn around edges; For Your Eyes Only, first edition, London 1960. Dust wrapper, worn at edges; Thunderball, first edition, London 1961. Dust wrapper, repaired and worn; The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, London 1962. Dust wrapper with loss to top front; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, first edition, London 1963. Dust wrapper; You Only Live Twice, first edition, London 1964. Dust wrapper; The Man With the Golden Gun, first edition, London 1965. Dustwrapper, chipped; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, first edition, London 1966. Dustwrapper. All octavo, with a custom wooden bookcase (14)
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Aldin, Cecil. Ratcatcher to Scarlet, third edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1933. Black cloth with fox mask vignette, full-page and text illustrations, quarto; Fawcett, William. Thoroughbred and Hunter, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1934. Crimson cloth, illustrations after Lionel Edwards, quarto; and a further eight assorted works, (10).
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LOUIS GOULDING: BLACK FRAILTY, ill Ulrica Hyde, L The Centaur Press, 1934, (75), sigd “Printers Copy”, orig cl + JOHN MILTON: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOSCOVIA, ill A Brodovitch, L The Blackamore Press, 1929, (600), sigd, orig buckram gt soiled + COLERIDGE KENNARD: FAREWELL TO EILENROC, L The Centaur Press, 1934, (400), orig cl d/w + JAMES LAVER: LADIES’ MISTAKES, ill Thomas Lowinsky, L The Nonesuch Press, 1933, orig cl + WILLIAM HAZLITT: A REPLY TO Z, L First Edition Club, 1923, (300), numbered, orig two-tone cl gt + D J TOWNSEND COLLINS: IN GOLD AND PURPLE, Newport, Mon, 1931, (325), numbered and sigd, orig cl bkd bds + DAVID BURNETT: SOMETHING OF MYSELF, Durham, Black Cygnet Press, 1994, (100), orig cl (7)
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Bougard (RenŽ). The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots: by which they are Clearly Instructed how to Navigate along the Coasts of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily; the Isles of Malta, Corsica, Sardinia...Enriched with Upwards of One Hundred Appearances of Head-Lands and Light-Houses. Together with Plans of the Principal Harbours...Translated from the French...by J.T. Serres, 1st English edition, London: J. Debrett, 1801, list of subscribers, 20 hand coloured aquatint plates of land profiles, 24 hand coloured engraved plans on 12 leaves, rough-trimmed, orig. boards, fraying to extrems., folio. The first and only English edition translated by Serres from RenŽ Bougard's Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer (1810). (1)
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Bowdich (T. Edward). Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa, 1st ed., 1819, two engraved maps, seven hand-coloured aquatints (incl. two folding), two uncoloured plates, 5 pp. of engraved music (all plates complete as list), large folding hand-coloured plate with minor wear to folds, with one or two short marginal tears without loss, minor offsetting from plates to text, contemp. calf, later reback, rubbed and some marks to covers, 4to. Abbey, Travel 279. First edition of the earliest European account of the Asante at the height of their power and splendor. (1)
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Jefferys (Thomas). The American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America: wherin are Delineated at Large, its Several Regions, Countries, States, and Islands; and Chiefly The British Colonies, Composed from numerous Surveys...by Capt. Holland, Capt. Carver, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon, Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c. &c. Engraved on Forty-Eight Copper-Plates, pub. R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1st 1776 edition, letterpress title and index, 22 engraved maps and charts on 29 mostly double-page or folding sheets as called for, all with original outline hand colouring, Quebec map with wash colour to sea areas, some light marginal spotting, a few very short fold tears, map of Pennsylvania strengthened to verso at outer margin, Florida map with paper repair to lower-right corner with a little loss of engraved border, 20th century morocco-backed library binding, folio. One of the most important atlases of the American Revolutionary War period. Most of the maps were surveyed and executed between the years 1762 and 1776 and appeared together for the first time in this atlas. This edition differs slightly from the first edition of 1775 in that the Quebac map replaces the Evans Middle Colonies map and the map of New York and New Jersey is dated 1776 and includes Thomas Pownall's amendments. Phillips, Atlases 1166; Sabin 35953 (note). Provenance: from the library of Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire. (1)
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Hakluyt Society. Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century. Comprising, the Treatise 'Of the Russe Common Wealth', by Dr Giles Fletcher; and the Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, Ant., now for the First Time Printed Entire from his own Manuscript, Edited Edward A. Bond, 1856, two copies, one bound in contemp. olive half morocco gilt, a little frayed at head of spine, the other bound in orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little worn on spine, together with The Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson, Traveller to India, written by Himself and Completed about 1661... Translated from the Icelandic edition of Sigfus Blondal, by Bertha S. Phillopotts, vols. 1 & 2, 1923 & 1933, b & w illusts., folding map, both orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt (vol. 2 in d.j., faded on spine), plus The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as Narrated in his Journal and Correspondence, edited from Contemporary Records, by William Foster, 2 vols., 1899, port. frontis. to each, folding map, uncut and largely unopened, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, faded and rubbed on spines, and other Hakluyt Society publications, (mostly more recent), many in d.j.s (74)
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Hobhouse (John Cam, Baron Broughton). A Journey through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople, During the Years 1809 and 1810, 2 vols. (lacks separate Atlas vol.), pub. M. Carey and Son, Philadelphia, 1817, two folding plts., some spotting and browning throughout, modern green half calf gilt, 8vo. The first edition was published by James Cawthorn, London, 1813. (2)
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Valentia (George Annesley, Viscount). Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the Years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, vol. 4 only (plates), [2nd ed.], 1811, half-title, title and 4 pp. list of plates (some light soiling), seventy-two eng. maps & plts. after Henry Salt, including twelve folding, two folding plates torn without loss, oocn. minor marginal foxing and soiling to extrems., modern antique-style half calf, 4to. First published in three volumes in 1809, enlarged to four volumes for the second edition, of which this is the atlas volume. (1)
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Shropshire. Morden (Robert), Shrop Shire, [1680], engraved playing card map, hand coloured in outline, 95 x 60 mm, mounted, together with 4pp. of accompanying text from the same work describing Shropshire. Cowling 145. A reprint of the first edition of 1676. This edition does not bear the suit mark. (1)
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British Isles. Ptolemy (Claudius), Prima Europe Tabula, Ulm: Johann Reger, 1486, double-page woodcut map with bold contemporary hand colouring, trapezoidal frame bearing Ptolemaic degrees of latitude and longitude, some expert restoration, 370 x 520 mm (at the widest point), Latin text to verso. The second issue of the 1482 map, also printed at Ulm, which was the first woodcut map of the British Isles and the first to be printed outside of Italy. This 1486 edition is more usually found with ochre colouring to the sea areas although other blue coloured copies are known (see Royal Geographical Society Collection; Sotheby's 20 September 1984 lot 406; Sotheby's 10 May 2007 lot 164). Shirley 5 (1)
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* Laurel (Stan & Hardy, Oliver). Signed large vintage sepia gelatin silver print photo of the comedy duo in their famous Double Derby pose by Stax, c. 1930s, boldly signed in ink by both vertically in left margin blank area with additional message in block capitals by Laruel, 'Best always Doris!', 6 cm vertical closed tear to centre of upper margin affecting blank image area only, sm. diagonal crease to lower left corner just affecting image, image size 25 x 32.5 cm (10" x 12.75"), framed and glazed, together with a first edition orig. cloth biography of the comedy duo by John McCabe, 1961, with pencil ownership signature of the art critic David Sylvester (2)
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Agricola (Georgius). De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556... by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, pub. Mining Magazine, 1912, b & w illusts. throughout, scattered minor soiling, small ink numer stamp to title, pages partly uncut and unopened, orig. parchment boards, sl. rubbed and soiled, folio (1)
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Boerhaave (Hermann). Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, new ed., Paris, 1728, bound with Libellus de materie medica et remediorum formulis ..., new ed., Paris, 1720, some spotting or light browning, old ownership signatures to first title, contemp. calf gilt, rubbed, together with Institutiones medicae ..., 4th Leiden edition, Leiden, 1727, vign. woodcut to title printed in red and black, minor worming to lower outer corners of early leaves not affecting text, modern buckram, sl. rubbed, both 12mo (2)
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Donatus (Marcello). De medica histoira mirabili ..., Venice, 1588, printer's woodcut device to title, light browning and some old dampstaining throughout, worm tracing to lower margin of first few signatures not affecting text, modern amateur quarter leather, 4to. Garrison Morton 3417, 4011.2 & 6377 (all Mantua edition, 1586). (1)
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Erhlich (Paul & Hata, S.). The Experimental Chemotherapy of Spirilloses (Syphilis, Relapsing Fever, Spirillosis of Fowls, Framboesia)... , trans. A. Newbold, and revised by Robert W. Felkin, 1911, three folding tables and five plts., some spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, (Garrison Morten 2403-1st edition in German), together with Ricord (Philippe), Lectures of Chancre... , trans. C.F. Maunder, 1st English ed., 1859, ink lib. stamps to title verso and final page, contemp. half calf, some wear, rebacked, plus Lopez de Villalobos (Francisco), The Medical Works, now first translated, with Commentary and Biography by George Gaskoyn, 1870, lib. blind-stamp to title, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, all 8vo, plus ten others on syphilis, mostly 19th-century (14)
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Hoffmann (Friedrich). Medicinae rationalis systmaticae... , 4 vols., second revised and enlarged ed., Halle an der Saale, 1729-39, first and last title printed in red and black, some light browning throughout, old ink inscriptions and name stamps to titles, contemp. vellum (vol. 4 part 1 contemp. half vellum), sl. rubbed and soiled, 4to, together with Dissertationes physico-medicae curiosae selectiores, 2 parts in one, Leiden, 1733-35, eng. frontis., contemp. half sheep, heavily rubbed, 8vo. First item: Garrison Morton 72 (Geneva edition, 1740-53). (5)
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Marryat (Thomas). The Art of Healing, or, A New Practice of Physic, 5th ed., with Alterations and Additions, printed by M. Swinney, Birmingham, 1776, half-title with ms. name to top margin, lacking last (Index) leaf at rear and rear free endpaper, first few leaves a little finger-soiled, hinges split, 19th c. half sheep, darkened and rubbed, spine extrems. worn, 8vo. Rare in any edition. (1)
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Mauriceau (Frances). The Diseases of Women with Child, and in Child-Bed... , 7th corrected and enlarged edition, trans. Hugh Chamberlen, 1736, eng. frontis. and nine plts. incl. four folding, publisher's ads. at rear, some spotting and old dust-soiling, contemp. calf, rubbed, leather reback, 8vo. Garrison Morten 6147 (first French edition, 1668). This copy lacking pp. xxxix-xl from prelims., consistent with other copies of this edition located which sometimes also lack the following and final four pages of the preliminary leaves - eg. see Wellcome copy. (1)
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Reil (Johann Christian). Rhapsodieen uber die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerruttungen, 2nd ed., Halle, 1818, minor spotting, ink stamp to fron endpaper, contemp. boards with later manuscript paper labels to spine, rubbed and chipped on spine, 8vo. Garrison Morton 4923 & Norman 1821 (first edition, 1803). (1)
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Schenck von Grafenberg (Johannes). Observationum medicarum rariorum, libri VII, in quibus nova, abdita, admirabilia, monstrosaque exempla, circa anatomen..., Frankfurt, 1665, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, light browning throughout, marginal dampstaining to first and last leaves, later vellum, a little soiled, folio. Garrison Morton 2272 (1600 edition): 'Schenck was the greatest compiler of his day. His Observationes form the earliest sourcebook for the pathological observations of Sylvius, Vesalius, and Columbus, and represent a life-time of medical reading and experience.' (1)
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Tanquerel des Planches (Louis). Lead Diseases, A Treatise from the French, with Notes and Additions on the Use of Lead Pipe and Its Subsitutes, by Samuel L. Dana, 1st English ed., Lowell, 1848, some heavy damp staining, first few leaves sl. chipped at margins and upper outer corner of title repaired, not affecting text, recent half calf, together with Armstrong (John), Lectures on the Morbid Anatomy, Nature, and Treatment, of Acute and Chronic Diseases, edited by Joseph Riggs, 1st ed., 1834, facsimile double-page letter bound in before contents, upper margin of title cut away, not affecting text, a little spotting and soiling and a few leaves sl. sprung, orig. cloth, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, spine darkened and label chipped, plus Sydenham (Thomas), The Works ..., 2 vols., Sydenham Society, 1848-50, ex lib, ink stamps and paper label to title of vol. 2, orig. cloth gilt, rebacked with orig. spines relaid, rubbed and some wear to extrems., all 8vo, plus three others general medicine interest, pre 1850. First and third items: Garrison Morton 2098 (French edition) and 64 respec. (7)
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Underwood (Michael). A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with Directions for the Management of Infants from the Birth, 3 vols., 5th revised and corrected ed., 1805, half-titles, pubs. ads. at rear of vol. 3, minor spotting throughout, recent half cloth, together with Smith (Hugh), Letters to Married Women, on Nursing and the Management of Children, 6th ed. 1792, spotting throughout, uncut, orig. boards, some edgewear, modern cloth reback, plus Hodd (P.), Practical Observations on the Diseases most Fatal to Children, with Reference to the Propriety of Treating them as Proceeding from Irritation, and not from Inflammation, 1st ed., 1845, some spotting at front and rear, orig. cloth, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, rubbed and soiled, all 8vo. First item: Garrison Morton 6326 (1784 edition). (5)
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