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1506 - Becher, J.J.
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Becher, J.J. Medical Treasury: Containing Instructions on How to Successfully and Swiftly Cure Children’s Illnesses at Various Ages, Based on His Rare Posthumous Manuscripts... Diligently Compiled by H.I.I. Leipzig, Chr. Hulse 1700. Fine engraved frontispiece, viii, 464, 128 pp. Contemporary red half-vellum spine with marbled boards. Stamp on the first blank page; some mild browning, but a very good copy of the first edition. The fine engraved frontispiece depicts the interior of an apothecary’s shop. Hirsch I, p. 407. Partington II, p. 643 ff. D.S.B. I, p. 548 ff. Wellcome II, 125; Krivatsky 984. First edition of this rare and early work on pediatrics. Not listed in Peiper, Still, or Abt-Garrison. (Erdeberg-K. 85. Erdeberg-K. casts doubt on Becher’s authorship.) - 23.
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