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FALCONER, William.
Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Nature of Food, and Way of Life,
on the Disposition and Temper, Manners and Behaviour, Intellects, Laws and Customs, Form of Government, and Religion, of Mankind.
First Edition of this wide-ranging survey of the influence of various environmental factors on human society. William Falconer (1744–1824) was a physician, educated at Edinburgh and Leiden, with a practice first in Chester and, from 1770 onwards, in Bath, where he was physician of the Bath General Hospital and ran a successful spa practice, counting Pitt and Nelson among his patients. A fellow of the Royal Society, Falconer was a prolific writer on a wide range of subjects usually with some connection to medicine. He was also a sophisticated statistician, who made an important contribution to later Georgian medical quantification.
Quarto. Original blue paper boards, edges uncut, rebacked to style with plain paper backstrip and printed spine label; contemporary Parisian bookseller's pink ticket to front pastedown. Boards and outer leaves very slightly foxed, an excellent copy.
