[Rarebooks] FS: Berchtold's 1797 booklet instructing the Barbarian countries on how to combat the Plague

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MEDICINE) Berchtold, Leopold von, Count. DESCRIZIONE DEL NUOVO RIMEDIO CURATIVO E PRESERVATIVO CONTRO LA PESTE. Presentemento Usato con Felicissimo Successo Nello Spedale di Sant' Antonio in Smirne... Distribuita Gratuitamente a Favore delle Nazioni... Levante, e Colla Barbaria. Vienna: Stampato da Francesco Antonio Schraembl. 1797. 12mo. 28pp. Later marbled paper wrappers. Some light soiling of first 3 and final leaves.    $200.00 (trade discount allowed)
Instructions for the countries of the Levant and points east on how to deal with the plague (which had already been eradicated in Europe).

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