Description:
Cream vellum binding. Spine replaced some time ago. The title page has been repaired. Rebacked.Contemporary full calf, except for the damaged illustrated frontis, contents are complete and are in fine condition. The text is very legible, internally in remarkable condition for a book that is 300 years old!
By repute, this volume has a distinguished provenance. It was gifted by the Harley family (founders of the 'medical' Harley Street, London) to William Dalrymple (17 August 1772 – 5 December 1847) who was an English surgeon. He learned his trade in London and practised in Norwich, initially from his father's house and later in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He received attention for successfully performing the then rare operation of tying the carotid artery.
Abel Boyer was probably born on 24 June 1667 at Castres, in Upper Languedoc, southern France.
His father, Pierre Boyer, one of the two consuls or chief magistrates of Castres, had been suspended and fined for his Protestantism. Boyer's… Read More