HERMANN, Josef (1817-1902). Ueber die Wurkung des Quecksilbers auf den Menschlichen Organismus.

HERMANN, Josef (1817-1902).  Ueber die Wurkung des Quecksilbers auf den Menschlichen Organismus. Teschen: Druck und Verlag von Karl Prochaska, 1873. 4to (357 x 270mm). Half title, 5 coloured lithographed plates (some mainly marginal staining and spotting to plates). Contemporary [?or original] cloth (a few stains, corners bowed). Provenance: small library label on upper cover. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. RARE. The plates graphically depict the effects of mercury poisoning on human physiognomy. Not in Howe and Holtz’s Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum Group (Washington, 1919).