[Rarebooks] FS: Spotted Fever at Gardiner, Maine, 1814

[Charles Agvent]

HALE,  Jr., E(noch). HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF AN EPIDEMIC  FEVER
...  CALLED SPOTTED FEVER, WHICH PREVAILED AT GARDINER, MAINE, IN  THE
SPRING  of  1814. Boston: Wells and Lilly 1818. First  Edition.  Small
quarto  (5-1/2"  x 9-1/2") bound in original paper-backed blue  boards
with  printed paper spine label. xvi, 246, [2] ads. Complete with half
title.  An  early and important monograph on meningitis. Pencil  notes
and  small ink owner stamp to front blank; mild and scattered  foxing.
Some  erosion  of  paper on spine including part of the  label.  Front
board  holding  by  cords. Very Good, uncut, clean  copy  in  original
state.                                                         $350.00

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