May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
BIGELOW, HENRY JACOB. Manual of Orthopedic Surgery. 6 plates. xii, 211 pages. 8vo, 237x134 mm, original cloth, small portions missing from top and bottom of spine, small hole in front joint, cover corners worn through; contents clean. Bookplate of Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital (Henry Jackson gift, released). Boston, 1845

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first edition. "Bigelow was one of America's major innovators in orthopedic surgery . . . This volume was the first comprehensive treatment of the subject in America and includes a superb summary of French orthopedic surgery of the day"--Rutkow OR4. Half-title inscribed: "Dr. J. B. S. Jackson with the respects of the author."