Author: HOOGVLIET, J.
Title: Konst om wonden te schouwen, en over derzelver doodelykheid te oordeelen, kortelyk verhandelt volgens de ware Huishouding onzes lichaams... De tweeden druk.
Description: Rotterdam, By Philippus en Jakobus Losel, 1749. Large 8vo. W. title printed in red and black. W. nice engr. vignet on printed title ['F.v.Bleyswyck jnven & Fecit', motto: 'Tolerate Labores']. Good contemp. hlf. roan, over marbled brds. (Spine some rubb.; Covers, edges and corners scratched and rubb; corners bumped.). [*8, **3 [-**4 blank], A-Z8]. (XXII, 367, XIII [index], I (errata), III (blank) pp.). (Nice uncut and large paper copy). 2nd edition. Under C2519 we offer also the first edition.: Blake 220: Van der Aa vol. VI, p. 365: Hoogvliet was surgeon at Delft and translated Jean Louis Petit's book on bones and fractures in Dutch ['Verhandeling van de ziekten der beenderen']. Friend and translator of some of the later letters by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.: BMN vol. I, p. 490: DMB / Lindeboom, c. 902: 'He was a friend of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek who, at his [death bed] asked him to care for the translation and sending some letters to the Royal Society. He wrote a book on coroner's inquest and translated a book on bone diseases...':

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