A Vienne, Chez P. Fr. Didot, 1762, in-12 (17.3 x 10 cm - 6.8 x 3.9 inches), lxv - 406 pp., contemporary full brown mottled calf (leather restoration on 1 spine-end and on corners), spine raised on 5 bands decorated by hatched gilt fillets, 5 compartments gilt tooled, 1 compartment with red morocco gilt lettered label, red edges.
First edition of the French translation. Anton Freiherr von Störck (1731-1803) was the personal doctor of the empress Marie-Theresia of Austria and he accompanied in their travels several members of the imperial family. Pupil of Van Swieten, he practiced in Vienna. He became dean of the Faculty of Medicine and vice-chancellor of the university. His researchs and his writings made him famous in the medical world of his time and also like ' ' energischer Reformator of the österr. Medicinal- und Unterrichtswesens' ' (Hirsch-h. V, 436). Work enriched by a large folding plate showing the hemlock and its fruits. Cfr. Bibl. Walleriana I, 9277; Blake p. 434; not in Morton' S bibliography.