[Rarebooks] FS: Rush's Edition of Cleghorn's Diseases of Minorca, 1809

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

CLEGHORN,  GEORGE, M.D.   OBSERVATIONS ON THE EPIDEMICAL DISEASES OF 
MINORCA. FROM THE YEAR 1744 TO THE YEAR 1749 . . . [&]  A SHORT ACCOUNT OF 
THE CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, INHABITANTS & ENDEMIAL  DISTEMPERS OF 
MINORCA.  WITH NOTES BY BENJAMIN RUSH, M.D.   Philadelphia: F. 
Nichols;  Fry & Kammerer, printers, 1809.   First Rush edition.  Austin 
481.  (Garrison/Morton 1674 for the original edition.)   Old worn calf, 
front joint repaired, collector's bookplate, xviii, blank leaf, 
184pp.  Rush's 6-page preface  addressed "to the students of medicine in 
the University of Pennsylvania" is dated 1809.  $850.00






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