HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph Letter Signed, to "My dear Whipple." One page, 12mo, on personal stationery with embossed monogram; tipped into a copy of Holmes's Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science. 12mo, original cloth, spine darkened, ends chipped, front joint cracked; contents clean. Publisher's 16-page catalogue at end dated April 1861. Boston, 1861. first edition, first binding. BAL 8803; Heirs of Hippocrates 1748. Np, 24 July