Obervationes de febribus præcipue intermittentibus & ex earum genere continuis.... Juxta secundam Hannovarensem auctiorem, & emendatiorem

Book Description

Venetiis,: Apud Laurentium Basilium. 1764. hardcover. 2. 186 x 120 mm. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 327 pp. Woodcut title vignette, headpieces, floriated initials, index; occasional light foxing. Contemporary full mottled calf, raised bands, red leather spine label, gilt spine; rubbed, top hinge starting at foot of spine. Bookplate of "Ex musæo Josephi Castelle, Doctoris Medici Monspeliensis" on front paste-down. Castelle's ownership signature on rear paste-down. Very good. . SECOND VENETIAN EDITION. An important gathering of observations on fevers by one of Germany's leading practitioners of the eighteenth century. "An epoch-making work on alternating fevers." Hirsch. "Werlhof, a contemporary and friend of Haller, is remembered for his classic description of purpura haemorrhagica. He was Court physician at Hannover." Garrison and Morton 75 (Opera medica, Hannover, 1775-75). Blake, NLM, p. 486; Hirsch, VI, p. 245; Waller 10226-10227 (Hannover, 1732; Hannover, 1745).

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