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12mo (155 x 90 mm) 16 nn.ll., 126 pp. Contemporary sheep-backed boards, flat spine gilt, red eges.
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Garrison-Morton, 3421 : “A classic work on haemorrhoids”; NLM, p. 429; DSB, XII, 599-606; Osler, 4013. Not in Wellcome.
First edition.
[Bound in at head:]
1. STAHL. Ars sanandi, cum expectatione. Opposita Arti curandi nuda expectatione : satyra Harveana castigatae. Paris, Horth-Hemels, 1730. 2 in one volume, engraved frontispiece, 5 nn.ll., 246 pp. for volume I; 2 nn.ll.,, 312 pp. for volume II.
NLM, 430; Waller, 9143; Heirs of Hippocrates, 701.
First edition of “Stahl’s commentary on Gideon Harvey’s The art of curing diseases… Stahl’s work is a biting and satirical commentary on Harvey” (Heirs).
2. LIBRI huiusce Facultatis Medicae Venates Parisiis apud Fratres Horthemels propè Domum Sorbonn. nec non Offenbaci ad Moenum apud J.L. Koenig. [1730 ?]. 12mo, 34 pp.
Rarely found bound together with the bookseller’s catalogue.
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