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BELL, Charles. Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy, London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
Oblong 2° (270 x 383mm.), 20 etched plates by Thomas Landseer after the author, including 17 hand-coloured, wood-engraved illustration on recto of final leaf (8 plates detached, title creased, some waterstaining, all but 2 plates affected lightly, ink stain to lower outer corner of second half, some soiling), contemporary half calf (worn, lacking rear cover). Provenance: T. Ingle, stamp to title and front endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, following publication in fascicules 1820-21. GM: "one of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery"; Norman 174; Waller 857; Wellcome II, p. 136.
Oblong 2° (270 x 383mm.), 20 etched plates by Thomas Landseer after the author, including 17 hand-coloured, wood-engraved illustration on recto of final leaf (8 plates detached, title creased, some waterstaining, all but 2 plates affected lightly, ink stain to lower outer corner of second half, some soiling), contemporary half calf (worn, lacking rear cover). Provenance: T. Ingle, stamp to title and front endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, following publication in fascicules 1820-21. GM: "one of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery"; Norman 174; Waller 857; Wellcome II, p. 136.