[Rarebooks] fa: THOMAS SYDENHAM - PRAXIS MEDICA EXPERIMENTALIS 1711

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, October 26. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Thomas Sydenham: Praxis Medica Experimentalis, sive Opuscula Universa, Quotquot hactenus ab Autore ipso ultimùm revisa & aucta in lucem prodierunt, Nunc primum in unum collecta volumen, a mendis probe repurgatum, indicibusq[ue] necessariis accuratissimis exornatum. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Thomam Fritsch, 1711. Text in Latin. Small thick 8vo (18 cm) in early/period full vellum; [62] + 800 + [44] pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut vignette, borders, decorations and initials.

An early printing of this foundational work of medicine, a collection of Sydenham's most important writings, first published in 1695. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) has been called the "English Hippocrates" and the father of English medicine. "One of the greatest figures in internal medicine,… his reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina,  measles, etc." (Garrison, Heirs of Hippocrates). Soiling and modest bumping to the vellum binding; even toning to the contents; last two leaves (modern blanks) coming loose at the top, rear paste-down with some moisture damage at the gutter; signature and ink stamps of early 20th-century owner (Dr. G. ten Doesschate of Utrecht).