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London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt..., 1768. 8vo, pp. xxxii [xxxiii - xxxvi Contents], 620, contemporary calf; pp. 594 - 600 damp-stained, joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, lacks label. With the contemporary inscription "Ednd. Burford Junr.// ex done Patris/ Anno Domini Jany. 1769" on the recto of the front free end-paper. The first English translation of Tissot's work was published in 1765, and its immediate popularity documented an increasing awareness by a growing middle-class population of health matters. Tissot (1728 - 1797), a Swiss general practitioner, published his work in 1761. Two years earlier, he had published L'Onanisme, about the dangers of masturbation.

London: Printed for R. Ware, J. Knapton...[et al], 1756. 2 volumes in 1. 4to, pp. xxiv, 334; iv [v - x Contents], 355 [356 - 364 "The Explication of the Plates", four folding engraved plates at end of volume 2, 20th century library cloth; text browned throughout, ex-library.

In Venezia; Per Sebastiano Coleti, 1734. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 232 x 168 mms., pp. [iii], 220; [viii], 223 [2234 blank], engraved vignette on each title-page, with contemporary note on title-page of volume one, contemporary vellum, lettered in ink on spine; front hinge slightly cracked, no front free end-paper, vellum a bit soiled, but an attractively-printed copy, The Italian doctor Giuseppe Del Papa (1648 - 1735) published his first work, Lettera intorno alla natura del caldo e del freddo, in Florence in 1674. This was followed by numerous other works and an illustrious career.

London: Printed and Sold by J. and W. Olivers.., E. and C Dillyk..., 1772. 1772. 12mo, 168 x 100 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 132, contemporary sheepskin, recently repaired and rebacked, olive morocco label; corners very worn, but a goodish copy with the autograph "Jos. Whittuck/ Jany 19 1789" on the front paste-down end-paper. John Dolman published this in a shorter version of 108 pages in 1755, but this 1772 imprint has been expanded. ESTC describes it as a work having to do with "water efficiency", which seems reductive indeed, as the work goes far beyond that. An epistolary work, it begins by investigating the medicinal properties of "The New Hot-Wells", and notes several examples of people who have been cured, including John Wesley, who was a personal friend of the author. There would seem little doubt that the account of Wesley's encounter with the waters is first-hand: "When he first came, his once active Body, seemed as if it had nearly, very nearly, worn out… Read More

London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton..., 1746. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 120 mms., pp. [vi], 324. [12 - Index], 25 folding engraved plates, which are numbered 1-3, then lettered A-Y (minus J and V), contemporary calf, rebacked in morocco, dark red label on spine; generally a good copy, with clear impressions of the plates. The autograph of the unbiquitiusly-promiscuious nomenclature "John Smith" on the top margin of the title-page, the Caldecott bookplate on the front paste-down end- paper, and on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, "John Yerbury Dent/ 1918" and below that and ex-libris stamp, "J. R. Kirkup." "John Kirkup, MD, MA, FRCS, Dip Hist Med studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London, qualifying in 1952. After service in the Royal Navy he worked as an orthopedic surgeon for the Bath Clinical Area, Somerset, introducing ankle joint replacement to the United Kingdom in 1976. Always intrigued by the… Read More

London: Printed for R. Baldwin..., 1750. 8vo, 197 x 111 mms., pp. [viii], 176, recently rebound in quarter blue morocco, blue boards, red leather label on spine; lacks final advert leaf, but a very good copy. The fascination for, and belief in, the curative powers of foul-tasting liquids sometimes seems to be a genetic quirk in mankind. Tar water and its cousins were popular in medieval times, and, of course, in the 18th century Bishop George Berkeley extolled its virtues in Siris (1744). The first edition of Randolph's book was published the following year. Randolph's book begins with a historical survey of those who have noticed the medicinal properties of a well of hot water near Bristol. The secon part of the volume is devoted to the ills which are cured by Bristol-water: hectick fever ["immoderate discharges"], hemorrhages, diabetes, ulcers, etc. Similar quack cures are still to be found on the world wide web.

A Montpellier, chez Jean Marten aine..., 1809. 4to, pp. 40 [41 argument, 42 blank], disbound; slight water-staining of inner margin.

Philadelphia: Collins..., 1858. 8vo, pp. 22 [23 - 24 blank], recent marbled boards.

Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1927. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xv [xvi blank], 182 [183 epigraph, 184 printer's imprint], portrait, illustrations, original cloth, embossed in gilt. A very good copy. Loosely inserted is a fine pencil sketch of Logan Turner.

Paris, Chez Theophile Barrois..., 1784. Large 8vo, pp. [iii] - xxxviii [xxxix - xl Approbation], 1728, 19th century quarter sheepskin, gilt spine, marbled boards; base of spine defective. Jault's translation was first published in 1774.

Londini: Impensis Joannis Hinton..., 1752. FIRST EDITION of volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, 205 x 123 mms., pp. [iv], xxx, 161 [162 blank], 38 [39 - 42 Index]; xix [xx Errata], 208, one engraved plate in first volume, contemporary calf, rebacked, red leather labels; tear in fore-margin of F4 slightly affecting text, edges browned, corners worn. John Huxham (1692 - 1768) gained his M. D. at Rheims in 1717; he returned to Devon, where he had been born, but later moved to Plymouth. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1739 but achieved medical fame in 1750 with his Essay on Fevers and their Various Kinds. Although there was some dubious scandal attached to Huxham in his early years in Plymouth, the Leipzig scholar and physician, G. D. Reidel, said of him in 1764, "who has so much as hailed our art from the threshold, who has yet never heard the great name of HUXHAM?" The Victorian biographer of English physicians, William Munk, in a modified version of earlier assessment of Huxham,… Read More

London: Printed by William and John Innys, Printers to the Royal Society..., 1718. FIRST EDITION. 88vo, 194 x 110 mms., pp. [viii], 376 [377 - 386 Index, 387 - 388 adverets], woodcut diagrams in text, bound in contemporary unlettered panelled calf; joints cracked but holding, the upper joint internally strengthened, slightly rubbed and worn at corners, internally sound and clean. A very good copy with the autograph and inscription of Dr. William Bold, dated 1721, and that of Josiah Babington, 1724, on the upper margin of the front paste-down end-papers. There are also annotations and additions of the index in, probably, Babington's hand, as well as a note on the verso of the front free end-paper in a contemporary hand on the medical content in the work. The polymath John Ray (1627–1705) was successively a Lecturer in Greek, Mathematics, and Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later took up botany and theology. He made the acquaintance of Francis Willughby, with whom he toured… Read More

Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1745. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 12mo, 168 x 100 mms., pp. xxiv, 343 [344 blank], including half-title, recent quarter sheepskin, red morocco label, old marbled boards. A goodish copy. "Jessop noted that the catalogue of the Surgeon-Geneeral's Library, Washington, attributes the translation to D. R. Bouiller. The translator suppressed Berkelery title, Siris, etc., explaining in his preface that he thought it misleading and too obscure for the generality of his readers. He stated that he used as the source of his text the 'third edition', that is presumably, the second Dublin edition; he had also profited by manuscript corrections and additions, which the author had supplied" (Keynes). Jessop 184. Keynes 73. The translation was reviewed in Acta Eruditorum (Leipzig, 1746).

Edinburgi: Apud Balfour et Smellie..., 1783. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo (in 4s), pp. [7] 8 - 61 [62 blank], contemporary tree calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spine; front joint cracked, lacks label, but a good copy with the autograph "Tho. Wilkinson/1786" on the front paste-down end-paper. The list of examiners for this doctoral dissertation on electrotherapy names Joseph Priestley, Hollis Edwards, and Josiah Thompson. This copy is likely an association copy twice over, as no doubt the Thomas Wilkinson who inscribed this copy is related to the Abraham Wilkinson who wrote the work, and likely both are related to the Wilkinson family that Joseph Priestley married into when, in June 1762, he married Mary Wilkinson, daughter of Isaac Wilkinson, the "prosperous ironmaster near Wrexham", on whom see David L. Wykes and Isabel Rivers, eds., Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) p. 33. Considering the large role that the… Read More