HECKER, J.F.C.

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages.

London: Trubner, 1859.

Translated by B.G. Babington. 300pp, 8vo, blue cloth; (lacks front fly-leaf; pages toned and some foxing). London: Trubnor & Co, 1859. Third Edition, Completed with the author's treatise on Child-Pilgrimages.

The Black Death, the Dancing Mania, and the Sweating Sickness, the 3 great epidemics of the Middle Ages. Babington's fine translation includes a valuable chronological survey, a 12pp. bibliography, and a complete reprinting of Caius's "Boke...(on) Sweatyng Sicknesse"--GM 5522, 1678, 6516.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Language: English

Price: $100.00

Item #305529