Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses parties, la source de son venin ses divers effets, et les remedes exquis (the rare first edition, first issue) 23 and 24 only)

23 and 24 only)

5 inches wide by 21 inches long

authentic and so on

Text in Japanese but with Latin names and some English phrases used throughout

”  MacMurray assisted the Andrews and Granger expeditions with logistics and other aid while he served at Minister to China from 1925-1929

Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses parties, la source de son venin ses divers effets, et les remedes exquis (the rare first edition, first issue) 23 and 24 only)Pp. illustrated frontis leaf (1), title leaf (1), dedication & epistre (4), preface (6), 1 200, fin (with 3 double plates and 1 illustrated frontis plate), 201 218 (echiosophium), table des titres (4), privilege du rot (2). Early acid etched brown calf, spine rebacked with original calf laid on, sm 8vo. This classic work began the debate with Italian physician Francesco Redi on the mechanism of viper envenomation. In this volume, Charas disputed