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Published by Bantam Books [1973], New York, 1973
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original black pictorial card wrappers; [16].122pp. Textblock uniformly toned, else Fine. Collection of lyrics by the major blues singers, including Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bukka White, and Howlin' Wolf. With an introduction by Nicholas.
Published by Philadelphia, 1802
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 8vo, tree calf, upper cover once detached and now crudely re-attached, [viii], 570, xxix pp., 12 engraved plates, largely of medical instrumentation. Some occasional browning and foxing. AUSTIN 173. A Good+ copy.
Published by Philadelphia Budd & Bartram 1802, 1802
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition. 8vo. 570 pages. Has been rebacked. Mild cuffing to leather boards. Dampstaining to title and first few pages and several pages in text. Owner's name. Else, good+ condition. A nice, tight copy. Illustrated with twelve copper plates, all of which are present and in very good condition. (R7).
Published by Printed by Budd & Bartram for Thomas Dobson., Philadelphia., 1802
Second American edition. Important early American work based on the work of the pioneering Scottish surgeon, John Bell. Bell is famous for his developments in vascular surgery. weight: 1.5 lb. Very good, some offsetting from plates to facing pages, scattered light foxing. 12 engraved plates of surgical instruments. 8vo., 21x13 cm. viii, 570, xxix pp. Contemporary full marbled calf, red spine label. gilt title.
Published by T. Dobson, Philadelphia, 1791
Seller: Great Matter Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition of this summary of the multi-volume works of Benjamin Bell. Full leather binding, boards well worn, spine with wear and creases, spine title label barely readable. Binding is nice and strong. Internally, viii, 570, xxx pp. including 12 plates in appendix. Lacks front end paper, title page with 3 previous owner's names. pages generally toned with some foxing, though still quite readable, Some pages with creased corners. All 12 plates of surgical instruments are present though several have small pieces missing as a result of folding. See attached photos for better details. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.
Published by Published by Archibald Bartram for Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia, 1806
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Third Edition. Third Edition. Hardcover. Bell, a renowned Scottish surgeon and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Bell published a number of important medical treatises and is widely considered the first Scottish scientific surgeon. In his 1796, A System of Surgery, he advocated the routine use of opium to relieve post-operative pain, "to be able to alleviate the misery of those who are obliged to submit to dangerous operations must afford the biggest gratification to every practitioner". Uncommon generally, quite scarce complete and in the condition found here. Light shelf/edge wear, ffep very tender at joint, owner signature at second ffep, light foxing at preliminaries and minor sporadic throughout, tipps gently bumped, wear at head, else tight, bright and unmarred. 570pp; xxix; plus Plates I-XII. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Seller: R. Rivers Books, Running Springs, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1791. First Edition of Nicholas Water's Abridgment. Full leather with maroon title box to spine and gilt lettering and horizontal rulings. 8vo - 5 x 8 . viii, 570, xxix pp. Includes 12 engraved plates of surgical instruments. The plates, which appear in the Appendix along with a complete text explanation of each, were engraved by James Trenchard. Fair. The boards are rubbed and soiled with tears to the extremities and splitting along the front and rear spine-folds. Note in pencil and the previous owner s name in ink, Planey MD , on the front free endpaper. Lengthy note in ink on the recto of the second rear free endpaper. Contains many instances of notes and marks in ink in the text. Soiling, foxing, and closed tears to some of the inside pages. The 12 plates appear to have been crudely detached at some point and incorrectly reattached in the appendix. The binding is shaken and split in areas, but it is still attached.
Published by T. Dobson - Philadelphia, 1791
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Full leather with maroon title box to spine and gilt lettering and horizontal rulings. Book is tight and square with just a few slighltly loose pages and rubbing to the edges and corners of boards. Free of major flaws or markings inside and out, other than a white spot to front, the aforementioned wear, general toning to pages, and the signature of the prior and original 1791 owner, Cyrus Hamlin. Provenance is detailed in a laid-in hand-written note - this was the original copy used by Cyrus Hamlin, father of the future Vice-President of the USA, Hannibal Hamlin, under Abraham Lincoln, when he attended Harvard Medical School in 1793. Purchased from the Hamlin estate in 2022. All 12 fold-out plates, which appear in the Appendix along with a complete text explanation of each, were engraved by James Trenchard. They are all in Good+ or better condition with small closed tears to some of them. They depict various surgical instruments. This is the First Edition of the American abridgment of Bell's 6-volume System of Surgery (1782 -87) in which Bell, amongst many other advances such as developments in vascular surgery, advocated the routine use of opium to relieve post-operative pain, "to be able to alleviate the misery of those who are obliged to submit to dangerous operations must afford the biggest gratification to every practitioner". In his preface, the editor, Waters, credits the famous New York surgeon John Jones with reviewing the manuscript and with adding footnotes, which appear throughout. Jones was the author of the first surgical text by an American.