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Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 9, 2021
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HILL, Daniel M.D. Practical Observations on the use of Oxygen, or Vital Air, in the Cure of Diseases: to which are added a few experiments on the Vegetation of Plants. London: for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1820.
8vo. 5 engraved plates. (A few small spots.) ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine (upper cover detached, a few old repairs). Provenance: H. P. Hope (inscription).
Second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HILL to H. P. Hope: "With grateful esteem and respect from the author to H. P. Hope. Esqr." "In a philosophical point of view, it was almost impossible not to conceive, that the singularly fortunate discovery of the chemical properties of the air of our atmosphere...must lead to great and salutary effects in the cure of many diseases peculiar to the human frame" including Asthma (Introduction, p.2).
Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum