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[MEDICAL]. ROBERT, James (1705-1776). A Medical Dictionary. London: T. Osborne, 1743-1745.
3 volumes, folio (406 x 254 mm). 63 engraved plates, mostly folding. (Some light marginal worming to first several leaves in vol. I, some spotting to title-pages, Contemporary calf, rebacked (corners restored, some surface wear to covers, renewed endpapers).
FIRST EDITION. “The largest, most exhaustive and most learned medical dictionary written in English prior to the scientific age of medicine…Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote the preface” (Garrison-Morton-Norman 6799). Blake, p. 233; Wellcome III, p. 343.