First Lines Practice Physic Notes by Cullen William, First Edition (2 results)

Contemporary Calf. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1816 Philadelphia Edition. This is a very nice tight copy in brown contemporary calf with gold spine lettering, good tight hinges, modest foxing, 550 pages, volume 1 only. Previous owner's name and a date of 1845. Photos on request.

VOLUME TWO ONLY. viii, 307 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14cm. Original full leather binding; boards rubbed with some surface scuffing and wear at corners, slight splitting along front joint (but front hinge is firm), spine leather darkened with title label missing. Personal library bookplate of S.F. Hill (Civil War-era Carrollton, Alabama surgeon Dr. Samuel F. Hill) dated for 1860 on front pastedown. Older antiquarian ink ownership inscriptions of "Jacob M. Jennings M.D., Henry Cty., Virginia" on front free endpaper, half-title, and title page. Front flyleaf creased. Toning and some foxing throughout, Binding is firm. The Library of Congress online catalog notes this 1816 Thomas Dobson imprint as the American first edition although Philadelphia publishers Edward & Richard Parker issued their own edition in the same year. A Hill family history asserts that Dr. Samuel Felto Hill (1813-1895) was a Confederate Army surgeon but cursory research disproves that claim. It is possible that Hill temporarily participated with a militia unit but the most plausible scenario is that he simply treated ill and injured soldiers as Carrollton was in proximity to Alabama civil war activity in Tuscaloosa and Greensboro as well as being reasonably close to the hospital town of Columbus, Mississippi where thousands of Union and Confederate wounded were transported after the Battle of Shiloh.