Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 300

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
OSLER, WILLIAM, Sir. The Principles and Practice of Medicine. Half-title. 3 ad leaves at end, followed by publisher's 8-page catalogue dated March 1892. Large 8vo, 234x155 mm, original cloth, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip, light streaks and faint discoloration on covers; contents clean. Ownership inscription of James(?) Kerr, M.D., dated Washington, D.C., October 1892; bookplate of the neurosurgeon Harry Hyland Kerr (1881-1963). New York, 1892

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first edition; first state of page [vi], with "Georgias" instead of "Gorgias." "One of the most influential textbooks of general medicine ever written"--Norman 1612. Garrison-Morton 2231; Golden & Roland 1375.