The Diagnosis of Surgical Cancer. The Liston Prize Essay for 1854

by Medicine, John Zachariah Laurence

$2,750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition · Signed

London: John Churchill, 1855. Slim 8vo, 77pp., 2 plates at the end, then 28 pp. ads for Churchill's Publications in Medicine, Surgery, and Science . Original green cloth, hinges repaired at front and back, cloth dull and backstrip with some wear. § First edition of the author's first book; presentation copy inscribed on the title-page by the author With the Author's best complts and a 4pp. mostly illegible ALs from the author to Dr. Long tipped in facing

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