A narrative of the last illness of the Right Honourable The Earl of Orford: from May 1744, to the day of his decease, March the eighteenth following

by John Ranby

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First edition

London: John and Paul Knapton, 1745. 12mo. viii , 47, 1 pp., including half-title and publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding plate. Rebound into boards with new endpapers; a fine copy. Item #15509 First edition. This treatise details the cause of death of Robert Walpole, Lord Orford 1676-1745 from urological problems. The autopsy was performed by Ranby, a

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