Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part I, A-C

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Lot 8
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Addington, Anthony

Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Addington, Anthony
  • An Essay on the Sea-Scurvy. Reading: C. Micklewright, sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row, London; and J. Fletcher, Bookseller in Oxford, 1753
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (205 x 130mm.), viii, 48pp., half calf over marbled boards, first few leaves very slightly dampstained at foot

Provenance

Wellcome Historical Medical Library, inkstamp (with separate withdrawn stamp) on verso of title

Catalogue Note

Americana Exchange records no copy at auction since 1967. Anthony Addington (1713-1790) was a physician who ministered to, among others, William Pitt the elder and George III. In this work he proposes adding hydrochloric acid to water to keep it fresh, but this proved to be of little practical value in preventing scurvy.