(Médecine) — Fothergill, John.- The works with some account of his life. By John Coakley Lettsom [...]. London, printed for Charles Dilly, 1784. Large in-4° : [8]-xcv-[1 bl.]-657-[3] pp.; 14 plates (dampstains -incl. on the front.-, foxing, tears...
Estimation :
200 / 250
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
on 2 plates without lacks, traces of bookmarks on some pp.). Contemporary binding : sprinkled calf, boards with gilt roll-stamps and fillets, flat spine with gilt roll-stamps (lower turn in lacking, small lacks on the upper one, slightly rubbed on the edges, joints partly split, scratches, edges and corners dulled, ex-libris on the upper flyleaf). Second posthumous edition (1„ed. : i783-i784, 3 vol. in-8°) collecting the works by Fothergill (1712-1780) : "An account of the putrid sore throat" (first autoritative account on dieria and scarlatinal angina),- "On the weather and diseases of London",- "Considerations relative to the North American colonies",- "Of a painful affection of the face",- "Remarks on the cure of epilespy [...]",-"Extacts from an historical account of coffee, &c"... Preceded by the life of the author written by the physician Lettsom (1714-1815) and illustrated with 14 plates (one folding) : 9 botanical (whom 4 are both in black & white and hand-colored),- 1 figuring a magnetical machine,- 1 the house at Ackworth (boarding school for Quaker boys and girls founded in 1779),- 1 representing a bladder,- and 2 portraits : the Scottish physician Alexander Rusell (c. 1715-1768) and the member of the Royal Society, Peter Collinson (1694-1768), friend of Benjamin Franklin. The Quaker physician, doctor and botanist Forthergill, was also friend of B. Franklin and became a member of the Royal Society of London in 1763. # Wellcome 111-45; # Bibl. Wall. 3146; # not in Garrisson & Morton. Seconde édition des travaux du médecin, Fothergill (1712-1780). Illustré du portrait de l'auteur en frontispice et de 14 pl. figurant principalement des plantes et des boïtes pour les transporter par mer. Plein veau moucheté de l'ép. (mouill., rouss., épidermures, mors part. fendus, coiffe inf. manquante).
