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Trotter, Thomas.
Sea Weeds: Poems, Written on Various Occasions, Chiefly During a Naval Life.
Publisher: Printed by Edward Walker of Newcastle for Longman & Co. and D. Lizars, London and Edinburgh;
Date of Publication: 1829
Stock Code: 11978
FIRST EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo, pp. 172. Engraved portrait roundel frontispiece of Dr. Trotter aged 57. Original red quarter cloth with printed paper title label to spine over blue paper-covered boards; edges uncut. Gift inscription by the author’s daughter Alice Trotter to front free endpaper, dated 1860, Melrose. Contents clean, some offsetting from portrait. Spine sunned with a hint of wear to tips and board corners. Scarce work by the Scottish Physician of the Fleet (1760-1832) who was born in Melrose. Trotter was a critic of the slave trade, a medical reformer and early advocate of vaccination, insisting on inoculation for smallpox for all naval medical staff. Best known for his treatise “Medicina Nautica” on naval medical conditions in the French Revolutionary wars, Trotter was also a life-long poet from his teenage years onwards. £80.00