A Lecture on the Preservation of Health.
London: T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1800. 2nd ed., octavo, original full leather boards with gilt decorative border, gilt decoration to spine, tanning to author frontispiece and engraved portrait plate, illus engraved vignette title page (Stothard and Nagle), marbled endpapers, pp vi, 115. Bookplate of William Robert Phillimore front paste-down, pencil lines in margins. Original mottled leather boards, rebacked in leather with new gilt titled leather spine label "Garnett on Health". Very good condition.
Second edition, first publsihed 1797. Thomas Garnett (1766-1802) was an English physician and natural philosopher. He was, as stated on the title page, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at the Royal Institution. The book is a lecture on health, and is dedicated to his fellow physician Erasmus Darwin, grand-father of Charles Darwin. Item #100477
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