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First edition on vaccination Treatise. LA CONDAMINE.

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First edition on vaccination Treatise. LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de. Mémoire sur l'Inoculation de la Petite Verole, lu à l'Assemblée Publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, le Mercredi 24 Avril 1754.

Bound with: L'Année Littéraire, Mai 1754. Paris, Durand, 1754.

8vo, mm. 170x90, pp. (2), 94, (2); pp. from 217 to 288 (includes new book review of which Beccaria, Forbonnais, etc.). Contemporary full vellum binding, label on the spine. Fine copy.
Condition Report: First edition of this very important essay, which contributed so much to the dissemination, in France and in Europe, of the inoculation method. In the following years, two other memoirs on the same subject followed, connected with the controversies that arose regarding the inoculation. C. M. de la Condamine (1701-74), geographer and astronomer, with a very lively talent, contributed a lot with his travels to the opening of new cultural horizons (geographical and anthropological) in the "century of enlightenment". Famous was his trip with Bouguer to Peru for the determination of the figure of the earth._x000D_
Wellcome, III/p. 427 (la traduz. italiana del 1755).

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First edition on vaccination Treatise. LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de. Mémoire sur l'Inoculation de la Petite Verole, lu à l'Assemblée Publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, le Mercredi 24 Avril 1754.

Bound with: L'Année Littéraire, Mai 1754. Paris, Durand, 1754.

8vo, mm. 170x90, pp. (2), 94, (2); pp. from 217 to 288 (includes new book review of which Beccaria, Forbonnais, etc.). Contemporary full vellum binding, label on the spine. Fine copy.
Condition Report: First edition of this very important essay, which contributed so much to the dissemination, in France and in Europe, of the inoculation method. In the following years, two other memoirs on the same subject followed, connected with the controversies that arose regarding the inoculation. C. M. de la Condamine (1701-74), geographer and astronomer, with a very lively talent, contributed a lot with his travels to the opening of new cultural horizons (geographical and anthropological) in the "century of enlightenment". Famous was his trip with Bouguer to Peru for the determination of the figure of the earth._x000D_
Wellcome, III/p. 427 (la traduz. italiana del 1755).

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