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- School of Salerno]. The School of Physicians of Salerno, which teaches how to live healthily and long... Rouen, Ferrand, 1660. In-12 contemporary ivory vellum. Ex-libris of Basonnière.
- SUTTON (Samuel) & MEAD (Richard). A New Method of Pumping Bad Air from Ships, &c. By Samuel Sutton. With a Dissertation on scurvy, by Doctor Mead, and a series of Experiments by Doctor DESAGULIERS, on the means of heating the air, of renewing it, &c. Works translated from English by Mr. LAVIROTTE... Paris, Durand, 1749. In-12 paperback, waiting cover. Extensive brown spots on the last pages. Without the 2 plates out of text.
First editions of the French translations of the works of Sutton and Mead, given by Lavirotte. The original English edition of Sutton's treatise, An Historical Account of a New Method..., appeared in 1745, without Mead's Dissertation on Scurvy, which was first published in the second English edition of 1749.
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