[Rarebooks] for sale: HENRY W. RUMSEY ESSAY

[Norman Kane]

RUMSEY, HENRY WYLDBORE.  ON THE TERRITORIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION FOR PURPOSES OF SANITARY INQUIRY AND SOCIAL ECONOMY, READ BEFORE THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION  FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE . . .  No Place: British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, 1857.  First edition. Later boards, caption-title, 14 pages., excellent copy.  ("Dr. Rumsey ... will long be remembered in the profession, especially in the British Medical Association ... To him State Medicine was not a word; it was the central idea of his life ...it was the imperative necessity of the century" -obit. His "Essays and papers on some fallacies of statistics  concerning life and death, health & disease", is listed in Garrison/Morton #1702.)  . RARE: OCLC  LOCATES ONLY THE COPY AT OXFORD.  $190.00   ($160.00 to the trade)

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