Jean-Étienne MONTUCLA (ed.) Pierre-Joseph MORISOT-DESLANDES (ed.)
Recueil de pièces concernant l'inoculation de la petite vérole, & propres à en prouver la sécurité & l'utilité[Collection of Papers Concerning the Inoculation of Smallpox, Tending to Prove Its Safety and Utility]
Vincent • Desaint & Saillant|Paris 1756|10.5 x 17.4 cm|Relié
First edition. A few head-piece vignettes, ornamental bandeaux, decorated initials, and tailpieces.
Contemporary full mottled sheep, spine with five raised bands, gilt panels and fleurons between the bands, gilt-lettered tan leather label, doublures of French curl paper, red edges. Upper corners lightly bumped, a few rubbed patches and small losses, a dampstain to the first leaves, a few minor paper losses to some leaves.
Published several decades before the results of Edward Jenner's research on vaccination, this collection brings together the principal texts on inoculation, the procedure that constitutes its direct forerunner.
€550