Medicine - Petit [(Jean-Louis)], A Treatise of the Diseases ...

Hammer

£320

Medicine - Petit [(Jean-Louis)], A Treatise of the Diseases of the Bones; Containing an Exact and Compleat (sic) Account of the Nature, Signs, Causes and Cures thereof, in all their various Kinds, with Many new and curious Observations concerning the Venereal and other Distempers; with the newest and best Methods of Practice, in each respective Case, As Also The Figures representing the several Dressings, Machines and Instruments here described, Translated from the French [...], first English edition, London: Printed for T. Woodward [...], 1726, pp: [4] (binder's blanks), xvi, 490, [6] (contents and advert), [2] (blank), in-text illustrations generally of medical and scientific instruments, a few anatomical and skeletal, contemporary calf, the covers with a gilt double-fillet, six-compartment spine of raised bands, fragmentary gilt-lettered red morocco piece within the second, the remaining five gilt-tooled with foliage, red-speckled edges, 8vo, [1]

Provenance: 1) John Couraud 17*0-1, ink MS ownership inscription on title-page, probably the clerk of the same name in the Northern Department during the early 18th century and, later, who died in 1751 while clerk of the Navy Office in the then British colony of Virginia, USA; 2) Thomas Sherry's Book 1794 (and sometimes 1795), various ink MS ownership inscriptions to pastedown, endpapers, etc.