A System of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology.
Price: $6,500.00
Place Published: Cambridge
Publisher: Burges
Date Published: 1796
Description: Volume I (all printed). Illustrated with 15 full-page engraved plates (small stamp on title page; scattered foxing). [4], 72pp. of text. Thin 4to, contemporary marbled boards with modern calf spine and corners. Cambridge: J. Burges, 1796. First edition.
Comments: First edition of the author's projected course (a synopsis of which was published in 1787). With an extra advertisement loosely laid in, indicating the intended completion of the work in 2 volumes of 5 fasicules each. Only the first fasicule was published. Harwood was a professor of anatomy at Cambridge, and an early developer of blood transfusion techniques. A signature on top edge of title page belongs to John Heaviside, a contemporary Cambridge anatomist and owner of an extensive and valuable anatomical collection, now preserved in the British Museum. Scarce. OCLC lists only 10 copies, including those at Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, National Library of Medicine, and Wellcome Institute.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardcover
Condition: very good
Type: Books
Book ID: 157199
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