MBA | Cook.- Sir John Pringle, Six Discourses, first edition, London 1783.

Lot 65. PRINGLE, Sir John.

Six Discourses ... On occasion of Six Annual Assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley's Medal. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author. By Andrew Kippis...

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Six Discourses … On occasion of Six Annual Assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley’s Medal. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author. By Andrew Kippis… 98575

London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783

Elected as President of the Royal Society in 1772, Sir John Pringle (1707-1782) was known to some as ‘the father of military medicine’. He corresponded with Cook and gives details of the great navigator’s various methods for combatting scurvy in A Discourse upon some late improvements of the means of Preserving the Health of Mariners (pp.143-200).

First edition. 8vo, [2], v, [1], xcvii, [3], 282, [2] pp., uncut in original boards, modern blue cloth box, tan morocco label, a fine copy.

[This edition not in Beddie but cf. Beddie, 1290; cf. Holmes, 20 (mentioned in note). ]

Hugh Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale (armorial bookplate and signature).

Lot 65. PRINGLE, Sir John.

Six Discourses ... On occasion of Six Annual Assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley's Medal. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author. By Andrew Kippis...

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