Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
WARREN, JONATHAN MASON. Surgical Observations, with Cases and Operations. 6 lithographed plates, tinted or hand-colored except for the second. Large 8vo, original cloth, spine nicked in 2 places at top, light offsetting from plates, otherwise crisp and clean overall; uncut and unopened. excellent copy. Boston, 1867

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first edition. "The Observations contains some of the earliest American contributions to plastic surgery, including a section on rhinoplastic operations and restoration of the lower eyelid. Warren's work on palates [cf. Garrison-Morton 5745] is found on pages 126-42"--Rutkow GS67. Heirs of Hippocrates 1762.