Boissier de Sauvages - Nosologia methodica - 1763

Boissier de Sauvages, Franciscus
Methodical Nosology Presenting the Classes, Genera, and Species of Diseases, According to Sydenham’s Thinking and the Order of Botanists.
Amsterdam, De Tournes, 1763
4 vols.: (4)+508 & 458+(13) & 415+(10) & 552+(18) pp. & 1 folding plate

BEAUTIFUL set in contemporary leather bindings (20 x 13 cm, slightly worn); clean inside apart from some foxing

Rare FIRST edition of Sauvages’ magnum opus, a work to which he devoted his entire life. He sought to apply to diseases a classification system comparable to the one Linnaeus had devised for plants.