De morbis navigantium...

by Louis Rouppe

$1,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Leiden: Theodor Haak, 1764. 8vo. 8 , 338, 1 pp. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut decorations throughout. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine; interior with light browning. Item #2718 First edition of this outstanding treatise devoted to diseases incident to mariners. Rouppe 1729-80 , naval physician and surgeon, describes the conditions, environmental and otherwise, in which mariners are

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