Freind, The History of Physick, 1725/1726 (married set of first editions)

The History of Physick; From the Time of Galen, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Chiefly with Regard to Practice. In a Discourse Written to Doctor Mead. By J. Freind, M.D. Part 1 Containing all the Greek Writers. London: Printed for J. Walthoe, jun. Over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1725. WITH Part II. M. DCC.XXVI (1726). 
 
Because volume 2 followed a year after volume 1, there are no sets that are not "married" in some sense. 
 
Vol 1 in contemporary brown paneled calf (Cambridge binding) with scuffs and one small gouge (worst on rear board) and later repairs including being rebacked. Some penciled notes on front pastedown. Front blank and rfep a bit tattered. Front hinge cracked. Front joint with partial, superficial fissure. A few minor marginal stains but otherwise a bright copy. 
Vol 2 in contemporary brown calf ruled in gold. A bit scuffed and corners bumped. A few stains on rear board. Red speckled page edges. Penciled notes on front pastedown. Hinges starting to crack but joints solid. Rare mild stains but otherwise bright. 
 
Vol 1: Blank, title (2) 312, blank, rfep. 
Vol 2: Ffep, blank, title, 415, 72, blank, rfep 
 
G-M 6378: John Freind (1675 - 1728) "Freind was the first English historian of medicine, and his book is a classic study of the period with which it treats. Freind dabbled in politics and planned the above work while committed to the Tower of London on a charge of high treason, a charge of which he was innocent. Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister at the time, suffered much from renal calculi and called in Richard Mead, a great friend of Freind. Mead refused to treat Walpole until Freind was released, and this was speedily arranged!" 
 
Freind states in his introductory material that he wrote this "only to pass away a few leisure hours" but really he was imprisoned at the time.