[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: BAILLIE, MORBID ANATOMY, FIRST US EDITION

[Norman Kane]

BAILLIE, MATTHEW.   THE MORBID ANATOMY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY.  THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.   Albany: Printed by Barber 
& Southwick for Thomas Spencer, 1795.  Nicely bound in modern half calf with decorated boards and new end papers.   Viii, 248, [12] pages.  Erratum on last page.  On the margin of page 46 an early owner or user of the book has penciled: "Dr. Physick has said that this Idea of this use of the muscular fibres was original with him" - a delightful tidbit for the medical historian. Some marginal darkening of the first two and  last few leaves.  Garrison/Morton 2281 (London edition): "The first systematic text-book of morbid anatomy . . . Baillie was the last and most eminent owner of the famous gold-headed cane" [now in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians of London.]   $250.00              (Trade Discount Available) 


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