Zoonomia ; or, The laws of organic life
By: by Erasmus Darwin...
Contributors: Dibner, Bern, donor; Darwin, Robert Waring, 1766-1848
Publisher: J. Johnson
Published: 1794
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Evolution; Medicine; Science; Pathology; History; Early works to 1800; Physiology
Notes: Vol. 2 contains parts II and III: "A catalogue of diseases distributed into natural classes according to their proximate causes, with their subsequent orders, genera, and species, and with their methods of cure" (p. [iii]-xi and [1]-653); "The articles of the materia medica, with an account of the operation of medicines" (p. [655]-772)

"Sect. XL. On the ocular spectra of light and colours, by Dr. R. W. Darwin ... from the Philosophical transactions, vol. LXXVI [1786] p. 313": v. 1, p. 534-566.

"Additions": v. 1, p. [566]-575; v. 2, p. [626]-640.

"Directions to the binder," "Errata," and "Advertisement [announcement of v. 2]": v. 1, p. [587-588]

Bound in original full speckled calf over wooden boards, rebacked in 20th c. morocco with gilt title to spine ; speckled edges ; original endpapers preserved ; bookplate with motto "Fide et Taciturnitate" (Marcus Inish[?]) inside front cover.