Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 230

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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
MÜTTER, THOMAS DENT. Syllabus of the Course of Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery . . . Part I.[-III.] 206 pages. interleaved, with extensive contemporary annotations in ink and pencil. 8vo, 214x137 mm, contemporary 1/4 roan, spine ends chipped, joints and cover edges worn; severe marginal browning through much of the volume, endpapers heavily foxed. Contemporary signatures of J. E. Leaming, Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, 1843

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first edition of an outline of the lectures given by Mütter (1811-59) as professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College. His collection of pathological specimens formed the basis of the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Rutkow GS20.