Surgical Observations on Injuries of the Head; Bound with: Surgical Observations on Tumours and on Lumbar Abcesses

by John Abernethy

$450 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London: Strahan and Preston for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1810; 1811. 8vo. ii , 260 pp.; ii , 222 pp. FIRST EDITION OF EACH WORK. First work lacking the preliminary blank. Full-page stipple engraved plate of the veins in the upper limb. Modern marbled boards; title chipped, minor foxing; old library stamp on the title, title verso, and final text leaf, ownership inscription dated 1858 on the title. Item #18373

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