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DRAKE, Daniel (1785-1852). A Systematic Treatise...on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America . Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co., 1850. 8 o. 19 lithographed maps (including double-page frontispiece). (Text and plates foxed and browned.) Modern calf. Provenance : Dr. Brooke (author's presentation inscription [in pencil] on front pastedown). PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. "The classical contribution to the social history of N. America includes the most important work on the natural history of malaria published up to that time" (Garrison-Morton 1777). Howes D-469; Norman 654. -- A Systematic Treatise...on the Principal Diseases...Second Series . Edited by S. Hanbury Smith and Francis G. Smith Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. 8 o. Contemporary speckled sheep (spine browned, rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Posthumously published as the second series, this volume contains the remainder of Drake's medical reports, classified under five different types of fever. See Howes D-469; Norman 654. -- Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country . Cincinnati: Looker and Wallace, 1815. 12 o. 2 engraved folding maps (including frontispiece). Original green printed boards, uncut (rebacked, preserving portion of upper spine). FIRST EDITION of Drake's second book, containing "the first organized study of the geology of western Ohio and eastern Indiana, describing the elephant fossils of Big Bone Lick and giving the first suggestion made in America of the connection between granite erratics and ice" (Norman). Drake devotes a chapter to medical topography of the area around Cincinnati. Howes D-465; Norman 655. Together 3 vols., the first two 8 o. (3)