Auction 77 ONLINE AUCTION: PRINTED BOOKS, HOLY LAND MAPS, POSTERS, & JEWISH GRAPHIC ART
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Percival Pott. Oeuvres Chirurgicales.
First French edition. Two volumes.
Contemporary uniform mottled calf with spine gilt, rubbed. 8vo.
Paris: Pierre François Didot 1777
An English surgeon, Percivall Pott (1714-88) was one of the founders of orthopedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen (i.e. occupational illnesses).

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