$369
Poxes and Disease, Three Volumes. Sir Richard Blackmore's (d. 1729) Discourses on the Gout, a Rheumatism, and the King's Evil , London: for Pemberton, 1726, first edition, octavo, collates in accordance with the ESTC, with an added four-leaf catalog of books for sale by Thomas Cox, full tan calfskin, paneled, rubbed, joints a bit split, structurally intact; modern bookplate imperfectly removed from inside front board, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. [with] Thomas Dimsdale's (1712-1800) The Present Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox , London: for Owen, 1767, second edition, produced in the same year as the first, by the same printer, (at least three editions were printed in 1767), octavo, 160 pages, bound in modern half-leather, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. [and] Samuel Scofield's A Practical Treatise on Vaccina or Cowpock , New York: by Southwick and Pelsue, for Collins & Perkins, 1810, first edition, with the vividly colored frontispiece showing the progression of the pox, text browned, in contemporary sheep binding, octavo, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (3)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
