Addington, Anthony

估價

300 - 500 GBP

招標截止

描述

Addington, Anthony
An Essay on the Sea-Scurvy. Reading: C. Micklewright, sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row, London; and J. Fletcher, Bookseller in Oxford, 1753
paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (205 x 130mm.), viii, 48pp., half calf over marbled boards, first few leaves very slightly dampstained at foot

來源

Wellcome Historical Medical Library, inkstamp (with separate withdrawn stamp) on verso of title

拍品資料及來源

Americana Exchange records no copy at auction since 1967. Anthony Addington (1713-1790) was a physician who ministered to, among others, William Pitt the elder and George III. In this work he proposes adding hydrochloric acid to water to keep it fresh, but this proved to be of little practical value in preventing scurvy.