Gentlemen of the Faculty

The Medical Museum:. (vol 1 only of 3)

      London 1763 - Or, A Repository of Cases, Experiments, Researches, and Discoveries, Collected at Home and Abroad. In Anatomy, Medicine, Pharmacy, Botany, Chemistry, Surgery, Physiology etc. In full brown boxed leather, decorative blind tooling, some leather loss, corners and edges bumped and worn. Spine has been relaid, keeping most of the old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, title in gilt to maroon leather label. Internally, ink name to ffep, frontis, ink name (Adam Hicks) to title page, [9], (ii-x), [1], 12-612 pp, [4], frontis + 8 plates, printed by W Richardson and S Clark, occasional worm mark, never detracting. Frontis plate is of Apollo delivering Aesculapius to Charon for his education. Introduction describes the original publication as -Monthly-. A genuine rarity. None at auction since before 76. (see ESTC P5999. Crane & Kaye 438. OCLC 536093013. COPAC) [Attributes: Hard Cover]