31st Mar, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia

 
  Lot 45
 

Medicine.- Lanzani (Niccolò)

Medicine.- Lanzani (Niccolò)

Vero metodo di servirsi dell'acqua fredda nelle febbri, ed in altri mali sì interni, come esterni, diviso in due libri, FIRST EDITION, half title, title in black and red featuring extensive ownership inscription in a contemporary hand, partly reading 'di Gennaro Giannelli dono a Giuseppe Giulio Mondi, Agosto 1731' and including comments on the quality of the edition, rusty hole from ink oxidation, small worm trail to R3-Tt4, intermittent foxing throughout, contemporary vellum boards, spine head scuffed, stained, 4to, Francesco Layno, Naples, 1717.

*** Scarce first edition with only 9 copies recorded worldwide in public libraries. Lanzani was a Neapolitan physician who believed cold water was the cure for fever.


 

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