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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. London, Thomas Osborne 1748-1752. Royal Paper Copy, Text Ruled in Red Throughout, Folio, Contemporary Red Morocco gilt. pp. 6 ll., 654 pp., 3 ll .; XXVI, 642 pages, 4 sheets; 4 ll., 584 pp., 2 llRoyal Paper Copy in Contemporary Red Morocco
FIRST EDITION of Hill's popular work describing fossils, animals and plants, with altogether 56 hand coloured engraved plates and folding table,
Contains: Volume I: A history of fossils. With 12 plates and 1 folding table. - Volume II: A history of plants. With 16 plates. - Volume III: A history of animals. With 28 plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand.

Of the seventy-six separate works with which he is credited in the Dictionary of National Biography, the most valuable are those that deal with botany particularly The British Herbal. He is said to have been the author of the second part of The Oeconomy of Human Life (1751), the first part of which is by Lord Chesterfield, and Hannah… Read More

London: G. Nicol, 1788. First edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary tree calf, gilt tooled spine with red morocco gilt label, bookplates, blindstamps of [Shirburn Castle] South Library to a few leaves, a very attractive copy.
Hunter was born in Perthshire, and studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.D. in 1775.
From 1781 to 1783 Hunter was superintendent of the military hospitals in Jamaica. On returning to England he settled in practice as a physician in London. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, he was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians speciali gratia in 1793 and was made censor the same year.
As Gulstonian Lecturer in 1796, Hunter lectured on the softening of the brain, which he is said to have been the first to treat as a distinct pathological condition; the lecture was not published. He was later physician extraordinary to the Prince of Wales.
In 1788 appeared Hunter's major work, Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Jamaica (2nd ed.… Read More