28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 128
 

128

Willis (Thomas). The London Practice of Physick, being the Practical Part of Physick, contain'd...

Willis (Thomas). The London Practice of Physick, being the Practical Part of Physick, contain'd in the Works of the Famous Dr. Willis ... To which is now added, his Plain and Easie Method for Preventing and Curing of the plague, London: for T. Basset, T. Dring, C. Harper, and W. Crook, 1692. 8vo in half-sheets (182 x 105 mm), c.1900 half sheep, 2 parts in 1 volume, engraved portrait frontispiece to parts 1 and 2, part 1 retaining final advertisement/errata leaf, part 2 retaining errata leaf but bound without imprimatur, damp-staining to initial blank, first frontispiece and margins of a few quires towards front, a few other marks, later gift inscription to intial blank, effaced ownership inscription to head of title-page, binding rubbed, loss to spine-label - together with 2 other works (qty: 3) ESTC R220013 (part 1: four copies only in libraries world-wide; format erroneously given as quarto), R1814 (part 2). First edition of the second part, which is titled 'A Plain and Easie Method for Preserving [by God's Blessing] those that are well from the Infection of the Plague'. It was also issued separately to the main work and is known in two variants, with and without 'A Poem upon a Laurel-Leaf' (7 pp.) at the rear; it is present in this copy.

Sold for £300
Estimated at £150 - £200


 

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