Trials of a Public Benefactor, as illustrated in the discovery of Etherization

by Nathan P. Rice

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Publisher's brown cloth, covers bordered in blind, spine lettered and stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers. Provenance: Presentation inscription by Dr. William T. G. Morton to Richard Fletcher. Presentation copy inscribed by Dr. Morton to Vermont Governor Richard Fletcher for his Town Library in Cavendish, Vermont, with all plates present. First edition of the first biography of William T. G. Morton, the Boston dentist who in 1846 demonstrated to the medical

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