Hardcover, bound in genuine forest green top-grain cowhide with raised spine stamped in gold and cover stampings and design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer in 22kt gold. 483 pages. All edges gilt. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. Special limited facsimile edition published for The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, of the first English edition originally published in 1802, courtesy of the Yale Medical Library. Personalized publisher’s book-plate affixed to second blank front end-paper indicating this is copy 921. A quality limited edition facsimile of this early treatise on diseases by a fellow of the Royal Society and the Paris Royal Society of Medicine. No other previous ownership marks but for book-plate. A clean, fresh unmarked and like new copy. Fine.
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