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Lot 49

PRINGLE, JOHN. 1707-1782.
Observations on the Diseases of the Army, in Camp and Garrison. London: A. Millar D. Wilson and T. Payne, 1752.

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PRINGLE, JOHN. 1707-1782.

Observations on the Diseases of the Army, in Camp and Garrison. London: A. Millar D. Wilson and T. Payne, 1752.
8vo (202 x 124 mm). Contemporary calf. Upper joint split, fly-leaf with small tape repair.
Provenance: Grisell Baillie (ink notation on title, bookplate); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale, Christie's New York, Part 2, 15 June, 1998, lot 736).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with the recipient's note on title: "A present from the Author / Grisell Baillie." Pringle outlines "the basic principles of military sanitation and stressed the proper ventilation of military quarters regardless of their location" (Heirs). Garrison-Morton-Norman 2150; Grolier Medicine 73B; Heirs of Hippocrates 879; Norman 1755.

BOUND WITH: Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jayl-Fevers. London: A. Millar and D. Wilson, 1750. FIRST EDITION. "Pringle was a strong advocate of better ventilation in prisons and hospitals as a means of preventing typhus, which he showed to be identical with 'hospital fever'" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5374). Norman 1754.

WITH: Observations of the Diseases of the Army.... Another copy. 8vo (207 x 129 mm). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: E.G. Graham Little. Norman 1756.

WITH: Six Discourses delivered by ... when President of the Royal Society ... to which is prefaced the Life of the Author. Edited by Andrew Kippis. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783. 8vo (208 x 130 mm). Contemporary tree calf (rebacked). Norman 1758.

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