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LALONETTE (Sir Peter). A New Method of Curing the Venereal Disease by Fumigation: Together with Critical Observations on the Different Methods of Cure; and an Account of some new and useful Preparations of Mercury.1777
London: Printed for J. Wilkie, First English edition, 8vo (210 x 125 mm), [2], iv, 149, [1]pp., without the half-title, 3 folding engraved plates, title a little foxed with soiling to margins, occasional foxing to the text, recent quarter-calf over marbled boards, spine gilt tooled, red morocco label. The first English translation of Lalonette's Nouvelle méthod de traiter les maladies vénériennes, par la fumigation, Paris, 1776. Provenance: Early ownership ink signature on title page "John Thomson". Scarce, not held by the British Library or the Wellcome Library.
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