Lot 147
  • 147

Hart, James, of Northampton

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • The Anatomie of Urines. Containing the Conviction and Condemnation of them. Or, the Second Part of our Discourse of Urines. Detecting and Unfolding the Manifold Falshoods and Abuses committed by the Vulgar sort of Practitioners, in the Judgement of Diseases by the Urines Onely. London: Printed by Richard Field for Robert Mylbourne, 1625
  • paper, ink, leather
4to (7 x 5 3/8 in. 181 x 134 mm). Woodcut initials and tailpiece, woodcut and typographic headpieces; lacking initial blank, title-page and final page (errata) a bit soiled, A6 with two small chips and perhaps some repair at head, occasional light stains and browning. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, red edges; joints rubbed.

Literature

STC 12887a; ESTC S103826; Krivatsy 5277; Wellcome 3060

Condition

4to (7 x 5 3/8 in. 181 x 134 mm). Woodcut initials and tailpiece, woodcut and typographic headpieces; lacking initial blank, title-page and final page (errata) a bit soiled, A6 with two small chips and perhaps some repair at head, occasional light stains and browning. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, red edges; joints rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

First edition; very uncommon.