Boerhaave’s Aphorisms, 1735 English edition

Boerhaave’s Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases. Translated from the last Edition Printed in Latin at Leyden, 1728. With useful Observations and Explanations. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster Row; and W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West End of St. Paul’s. M DCC XXXV.  
 
Octavo in original full brown leather gold-stamped armorial binding with leather title label and raised bands on spine. Joints cracking at head of spine, but otherwise strong. Leather a bit scuffed and stained. Corners bumped. Red page edges. Marbled end papers. Hinges sold. End papers slightly toned and scattered pencil marks in index at rear, but rest of interior exceptionally clean and bright. Binding tight.
 
Ffep, blank x 2, title (14) 444 (4), blank x2, rfep. 
 
Boerhaave, 1668 to 1738, was a successor of Govert Bidloo and teacher of Albrecht von Haller. His name remains immortalized in the diagnosis Boerhaave’s syndrome (esophageal rupture due to vomiting), and his Aphorisms are considered a medical classic. 
 
See G-M 2199: “The Aphorisms represent one of Boerhaave’s best and most influential works.”