A System of Operative Surgery, Founded of the Basis of Anatomy.

CHARLES BELL

Published by London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807

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First edition. Volume one only of two. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (24cm x 15cm x 4cm). Pp. xxvi, 448. Contemporary half-calf, smooth spine gilt, marbled paper-covered boards. With 14 full-page engraved plates by J. Stewart after Bell's drawings; numerous engraved figures after Bell in-the-text. Condition: Text lightly browned and soiled in places, plates largely clean, binding secure but particularly rubbed to extremities and joints, contemporary inscription to front endpaper. Scarce. Notes: FIRST EDITION of the first English handbook of operative surgery founded on anatomy, scarce in the original edition. Volume 2 was published in 1809 (here lacking). [Garrison-Morton 5583; Gordon-Taylor 7; Heirs of Hippocrates 782; Zimmerman & Veith 410-13].

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Title: A System of Operative Surgery, Founded of the Basis of Anatomy.
Publisher: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
Publication Date: 1807
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Good

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