Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Rush, Benjamin (1746-1813)
Lectures on the Institutes and Practice of Physic, Manuscript on Paper.

Philadelphia, circa 1794.

Octavo format manuscript on laid paper watermarked with a large crest and cursive initial W, dated 1794, comprising 197 numbered pages, followed by a number of blank leaves and three pages of index, taken by one of Rush's medical students at the University of Pennsylvania, disbound, in original boards (both detached, sewing perished), ex libris Dr. George Lee, with his book ticket and the bookplate of the Library of the University of Maryland's School of Medicine, first leaf of text with rubber library stamp, 7 x 4 1/4 in.