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HOLLAND, Richard.

Observations on the Small Pox: or, an Essay to Discover a Mord Effectual Method of Cure. / A Short View of Nature and Cure of the Small Pox.

London: John Brindley, 1728.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002452

[8], xix [1], 162 (i.e. 160) pp. including final ad leaf, with leaves O3 and Q4 not cancelled, and p.162 numbered correctly. [Bound before:] A Short View of Nature and Cure of the Small Pox. London: John Brindley, 1728. [8], 3-117 [3] pp. Two works in one volume. 8vo (179 x 108 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, gilt lettering piece "Holland on the Pox" on spine, red-spinkled edges. Internally clean and bright, with the first title-page and final leaf only little browned, endpapers browned in margins from binder's glue. Faint dampstain to upper corner of first 12 leaves. Provenance: Coward College Library (armorial bookplate to front pastedown). A fine copy. ----

NLM/Blake pp. 218-19. Scarce first edition treatises on the small pox by the physician Richard Holland (1688-1730). According to the printer William Bowyer only 300 copies of Short View, and 500 copies of Observations were printed, of which our copy has the original leaves O3 and Q4 usually found as cancels.

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