COOK, John. An Anatomical and Mechanical Essay on the Whole Animal

COOK, John. An Anatomical and Mechanical Essay on the Whole Animal Oeconomy, in One View. London: for W. Meadows, 1730. Vol. 1 [only, of 2.] First edition, 8vo (197 x 117mm.) Half-title, 1p. publisher’s advertisement verso half-title. (Toning.) Contemporary full brown calf (extremities rubbed, scuffed). Note: scarce. Provenance: William Sandy, dated 1768 (ink name to half-title). – And a further twelve volumes (including John Locke’s ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’, 2 vols., 1741, 8vo, and [Soame Jenyns’] ‘Disquisitions on Several Subjects’, 1782, 12mo, and J.S. Forsyth’s ‘The Antiquary’s Portfolio, or Cabinet Selection of Historical & Literary Curiosities’, 2 vols., 1825, 8vo, and Peter Mark Roget’s ‘Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology’, 2 vols., 1834, 8vo, and ‘Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories’, 6 vols. in 3 [of 12], 1745, 12mo, and ‘The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, According to the Order of the Church of England’, 1787, 8vo) (13).

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