A TREATISE OF VENEREAL DISEASES IN NINE BOOKS; Containing an Account of the Origin, Propagation, and Contagion of this Distemper. (continues,) 2 vols. in one.

Full leather binding with lighter spine. Astruc is billed as 'Physician to his present Majesty the King of France' and this 'Translated from the last Latin Edition printed in Paris' (but no translator given); the full title text continues: 'As also of the Nature, Cause and Cure of all Veneral Diseases whether Local or Universal. Together with a short Abstract of the Lives of the Authors who have wrote on those Diseases, and a List of their Works'. xiv+(18, Advertisement and contents)+404+338 (no ills but 11 Chinese characters pp.284-5 Vol.2); front pastedown has ex-libris plate of Robert Mowbray ('Member of the National Book League'), No major internal faults, some creasing to endpapers and front blank fly, endpapers have some browning to edges offset from facing binding, top edge inevitably dust darkened. Binding firm and undamaged but rubbing to edges and in a few places to boards, light paneled spine has good gilt-on-red label, rubbed to top and joints, esp.front joint, with some surface ageing. Very scarce.…