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Book Condition: Used
Seller: P & B Rowan

United Kingdom
About Item: JOHN HUNTER AND HIS COLLEAGUES - CONTAINS A CLASSIC EVERARD HOME PAPER first (sole) edition tall 8vo. [4], 343, [1 (blank)], [7 (ondex)], [1 (errata)]pp., 11 plates (7 folding), 2 folding tables, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine panelled by gilt fillets and with a plum morocco label gilt, plate 7 bound in wrong position, else a nice copy. Rare. Signed by a contemporary doctor, "C. G. [?] Foott, M.D.". Contains GARRISON & MORTON 2925 ESTC t106133Comprises 18 papers, including 5 by John Hunter, 1 by Edward Jenner, 3 by Everard Home, 4 by Matthew Baillie, 2 by George Fordyce, 1 by Anthony Carlisle, and 1 by John Clarke. This is the first publication of the society which had been founded in 1783. Two further volumes of transactions were issued, one in 1800, and another in 1812, each with different imprints.One of papers is Home's 'An Account of Mr. Hunter's Method of performing the Operation for the Cure of the Popliteal Aneurism', p.138-181. This paper, also published in the London… Read More
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