[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Dalby, Joseph. The Virtues of Cinnabar and Musk, Against the Bite of a Mad Dog

Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for the Author, 1762 (but 1764). First edition. 4to. (iv), (3)-55, (1) pp., including first state of title-page. Full brugundy morocco, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, front board bowed, light wear to front joint; all edges trimmed; very faint contemporary ownership signature at bottom of title-page, very faint contemporary manuscript in upper gutter of same; scattered minor soiling to text; closed tear in upper fore-edge D4; repaired closed tear in fore-edge G2; scattered corrections to text in a neat contemporary hand (per Gaskell). From the family libraries of Americana collectors and bibliophiles Amor L. and Zachary T. Hollingsworth. Gaskell 29

Scarce first edition of the first of only two medical texts ever printed by John Baskerville, with the rare first state title-page, incorrectly dated 1762.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.