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BELL, CHARLES, Sir. A Series of Engravings explaining the Course of the Nerves. 9 etched plates after Bell. [4], 49, [3] pages, including final ad leaf. Folio, 314x245 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century buckram with leather lettering piece, worn; varying foxing on plates, text leaves toned with offsetting from plates; uncut. London: (C. Whittingham for) T. N. Longman et al., 1803
first edition. Heirs of Hippocrates 1298; Norman 169. With the signature of Elliot Carr Cutler (1888-1947) and an undated one-page ALS on his Lakeside Hospital letterhead to "Dear Bill," presenting this copy as a gift. Cutler performed the first successful heart valve operation (see Garrison-Morton 3030.1) and succeeded Harvey Cushing as Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
