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HOME, EVERARD, Sir. Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, in which are explained the Preparations in the Hunterian Collection. Engraved portrait in Volume 1; 371 engraved or lithographed plates. 6 volumes, including supplement. 4to, original cloth-backed boards, spines slightly rubbed or spotted, Volume 1 rear joint cracked; some marginal foxing of plates, occasional light foxing of text, heavy offsetting from portrait on to Volume 1 title; untrimmed. wide-margined set. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814-28
first edition of a collection of studies based on the gigantic Hunterian Collection of anatomical specimens, "plagiarized from the manuscripts of John Hunter, Home's father-in-law, and of immense importance for publication of Hunter's researches. Home destroyed the original manuscripts on which his work was based after he corrected the page proofs"--Garrison-Morton 315. Heirs of Hippocrates 710.
