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Published by Lindsay & Blakiston, 1878., Philadelphia:, 1878
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland
First Edition
Dedicated to Samuel D. Gross, M.D. 12mo. viii, 13-279 pp. 227 woodcut figs., index. Blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine; rubbed, lacks preliminaries and rear free end-paper. Ownership signatures on title of Jesse A. Bolin and M. Hastings. Good. FIRST EDITION. Dedicated to Mears's mentor, Samuel David Gross (1805-1884). Further editions were published in 1885 and 1889. J. Ewing Mears was a charter member of the American Surgical Association and its president in 1894. Rutkow, History of surgery in the United States, I, GS89.