‎BOERHAAVE, Herman (1669-1738).-- BURTON, William.‎
‎An account of the life and writings of Herman Boerhaave : Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine ; Professor of the Theory, and Practice of Physic ; and also of Botany and Chemistry in the University of Leyden ; President of the Chirurgical College in that City ; Fellow of the Royal Society in London, and of the Royal Academy at Paris. In two parts, with an appendix. By Wm. Burton, M.D.‎

‎London, Printed for Henry Lintot (1703-1758), 1746. [ii, blank], [iv], [1]-2, vii-[x], 226, [ii, blank] pp. 8vo (19,5 x 12,8 cm.). Recent 3/4 maroon morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered on black marocco label, marbled boards; new end-papers. With an engraved portrait of Boerhaave by James Hulett.‎

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‎ The first English biography in bookform of Boerhaave in the very rare second edition, of which only a few complete copies are known. "Upon this republication, there was no occasion to alter more, than the first paragraph of the preface in relation to the period of 1743, when this piece was first published, which the reader is desired to excuse upon this intimation" (p. [4] at beginning). The fine engraved portrait has the inscription "J.G.M.D. ad viv. delin.", is ascribed by Lindeboom to Boerhaave's pupil Jacobus Goddard (Cf. Lindeboom, Iconographia Boerhaavii, p. 11). The appendix contains (i) Disputatio medica inauguralis ... de utilitate explorandorum in aegris excrementorum ut signorum; (ii) Commentariolus de familia ...&c. propra Boerhaavii manu conscriptus ; (iii) Ex epistolis ... analecta [8 letters, or parts of them, one to Bassand, six to Mortimer, secretary of the Royal Society, and one to "Sa Majest Portugaise, qui l'avoit fait demander par son ambassadeur a la Haye Don Louis d'Achuna" on the m‎