LOT:240 | Medicine.- Maclean (Charles) Evils of Quarantine Laws, and Non-Existence of Pestilential Contagion, first edition, original boards, 1824

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Medicine.- Maclean (Charles) Evils of Quarantine Laws, and Non-Existence of Pestilential Contagion, deduced from the phaenomena of the Plague in the Levant, the Yellow Fever of Spain, and the Cholera Morbus of Asia, first edition, presentation copy form the author to William Maclure inscribed on half-title, advertisement leaf at end, light spotting at beginning and end, bookplate, original boards, uncut and partly unopened, rubbed and marked, corners bumped, rebacked, 8vo, 1824.

⁂ Charles Maclean served in India from 1788 to 1798 when he was ordered to leave by Wellesley for making a public insinuation against a magistrate. He travelled in Spain, Turkey and the Levant studying the plague and opposed any form of quarantine as he believed it was not contagious.

?William Maclure (1763-1840), Scottish geologist and cartographer who emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia. In 1809 he produced the first geological map of the United States of America.

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