Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
Surgery of the Head. in: Keen, W. W., editor, Surgery, its Principles and Practice, Volume 3, pages 17-276. 10 color plates; 562 text illustrations. Thick large 8vo, original cloth, gilt lettering dulled, spine ends rubbed; minor ink underscoring or markings on a few pages, light dampwrinkling in blank outer margin of index leaves. Philadelphia, 1908

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first edition of Cushing's first systematic work on neurosurgical technique. "As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor"--Fulton, Harvey Cushing, page 268. Cushing Society 209; Garrison-Morton 4880.1.