Essai sur les maladies qui attaquent les plus communement les gens de mer....
Marseille: Mossy, 1766. 8vo. xvi, 360 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Full morocco with elaborate gold-tooled spine and decorative corner design. First edition of a valuable work on diseases that commonly attack seamen. Divided into two parts, the first deals with a number of prevalent diseases at sea: scurvy, seasickness..... More