59
Fontana sur les poisons.
2. v. in 1.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 92, as above, omitting
2. v. in 1.
FONTANA,
Felice.
Traité sur le Vénin de la Vipere sur les Poisons Americains sur le Laurier-Cerise et sur quelques autres Poisons Vegetaux.
On y a joint des Observations sur la Structure Primitive du Corps Animal. Différentes Expériences sur la Reproduction des
Nerfs et la Description d’un nouveau Canal de l’Oeil. Par Mr. Felix Fontana Physicien de S. A. R. l’Archiduc Grand-Duc de Toscane et Directeur de son Cabinet d’Histoire Naturelle. Avec plusieurs Planches.
Tome Premier [Second].
Florence, et se trouve à
Paris chez
Nyon l’ainé--A
Londres chez
Emsley,
1781.
QP941 .F69
First Edition in
French. 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I, 180 leaves, vol. II, 193 leaves; 10 folded engraved plates.
Sabin 24988.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, v, 49.
Jefferson’s copy was bound in 1 volume. It is entered on his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
24-10.
Felice Fontana, abbaté, 1730-1805, Italian physiologist and naturalist. His treatises on the venom of the viper were the starting point
of the modern investigation of that subject. See no. 1041. The first volume of this work was translated from the
Italian by J. D’Aret, and the second by Jacques Gibelin, 1744-1828, French physician, naturalist and translator.
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60
Valentin de la fievre jaune.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 42. no. 58, as above.
VALENTIN,
Louis.
Traité de la Fièvre jaune d’Amérique; Ouvrage dans lequel on recherche son origine, ses causes, tant sur terre que sur les
vaisseaux, et l’analogie qu’elle présente avec d’autres maladies; on y examine, d’aprés les faits et l’expérience, si elle
est contagieuse; on y indique non seulement les différens moyens curatifs, mais encore ceux qui peuvent en préserver les militaires,
les marins, et autres qui passent dans les deux Indes et en Afrique. Par Louis Valentin . . .
A
Paris: chez
Méquignon l’aîné, An
XI.--1803.
First Edition. 8vo. 126 leaves.
Biographie medicale, page 387.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, xv, 556.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the author, sent from Nancy, where Valentin had settled after his return from America
to France, on December 28, 1803: “I have the honour to send you, herewith, a copy of my treatise on the
yellow fever. this Work is the first that had been published
ex professo in our language, and agreeably to the desires of our first School of Physick, as you Will see it in the advertisement. Seven
months ago, I had already trusted to an agent of the french government, another Work of mine the title of Which is:
Résultats de l’inoculation de la Vaccine &c.
With some experiments on sundry domestic animals.
"I shall be very happy if you have the goodness to accept of them. Such a favor Will add exceedingly to their Weak Worth.
for the materials I gathered and the practice I acquired in the treatment of the yellow fever, I am, in a great measure, indebted
to my residence for five years in your Country. it is the sincerest Wish of my heart, that Scourge might relinquish it entirely
. . .”
