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Stockholm: Kongl. hardcover. 534 pages + index. 8vo, contemporary mottled lcalf, rubbed; hinges weak, very light waterstaining to margins of first 65 pages, occasional and light foxing, Stockholm: Kongl, 1771. Very good. Third edition of GM 6323, one of the most important works in the history of pediatrics, by the physician to the king of Sweden and one of the original members of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The present work "was at once recognized as a work of great value... the most progressive which had yet been written," being translated into English, German, French and Italian. Still, pp. 434-438. Blake, p. 387. (Inventory #: 48919)