[HECQUET (Philippe). The Brigandage of Medicine, in the manner of treating small poxes & the greatest diseases by Emetique, the bleeding of the ped & the mineral Kermès. With a treatise on the best way to cure smallpox by remedies and observations drawn from usage. Paris, Corneille Guillaume Le Febvre, 1732. 2 volumes in one vol. in-12 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, title page in red marble, red tr. (period binding). Spine worn, worm gallery on spine, rubbed on boards, small worm gallery on ext. margin of last few pages, first endpaper torn and missing. (Barbier I, 461.)

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