[Epidemics] Huxham, De aere et morbis epidemicis, 1764
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FIRST VENETIAN EDITION OF THIS STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES, WRITTEN BY JOHN HUXHAM
Huxham, John. [1.]: Observationes de aere et morbis epidemicis, ab anno 1728. ad finem anni 1737. Plymuthi factae. His accedit Opusculum de morbo colico Damnoniensi. Auctore Joanne Huxham. Editio prima veneta juxta ultimam Londinensem. Venetiis: apud Laurentium Basilium, 1764.
[bound with]:
[2.]: Observationum de aere et morbis epidemicis volumen alterum; ab anni nimirum initio 1738. ad exitum usque 1748. auctore Joanne Huxham. Venetiis: apud Laurentium Basilium, 1764.
8vo (200x106 mm), contemporary paper board binding, with handwritten title at spine; 2 vols bound in 1; pp. [8], XXX, 161, [1], 38, [6]; XX, 208.
Vignette at title-pages.
Engraved compass rose at frontispiece.
The first volume includes: Opusculum de morbo colico damnoniorum, eoque maxime epidemico, anno MDCCXXIV (starting at leaf O1r with its own half title-page).
First Venetian edition (first published in London in 1752) of this report on epidemics from 1728 to 1748 by John Huxham, based on daily records of the weather and prevailing dieseases with the aim to establish a relationship between atmospheric conditions and diseases.
References: IT\ICCU\PUVE\005663. OCLC, 14692982 (2 copies in USA).
Huxham, John. [1.]: Observationes de aere et morbis epidemicis, ab anno 1728. ad finem anni 1737. Plymuthi factae. His accedit Opusculum de morbo colico Damnoniensi. Auctore Joanne Huxham. Editio prima veneta juxta ultimam Londinensem. Venetiis: apud Laurentium Basilium, 1764.
[bound with]:
[2.]: Observationum de aere et morbis epidemicis volumen alterum; ab anni nimirum initio 1738. ad exitum usque 1748. auctore Joanne Huxham. Venetiis: apud Laurentium Basilium, 1764.
8vo (200x106 mm), contemporary paper board binding, with handwritten title at spine; 2 vols bound in 1; pp. [8], XXX, 161, [1], 38, [6]; XX, 208.
Vignette at title-pages.
Engraved compass rose at frontispiece.
The first volume includes: Opusculum de morbo colico damnoniorum, eoque maxime epidemico, anno MDCCXXIV (starting at leaf O1r with its own half title-page).
First Venetian edition (first published in London in 1752) of this report on epidemics from 1728 to 1748 by John Huxham, based on daily records of the weather and prevailing dieseases with the aim to establish a relationship between atmospheric conditions and diseases.
References: IT\ICCU\PUVE\005663. OCLC, 14692982 (2 copies in USA).
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