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Lot 105

HIRSCHBERG, JULIUS (1843-1925).

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HIRSCHBERG, JULIUS (1843-1925).
Ausgewählte Abhandlungen (1868-1912). Edited by Oscar Fehr and Wilhelm Mühsam. Leipzig: Veit & Comp., 1913. 8°. Half-tone portrait frontispiece, illustrations in the text. Original publisher's cloth, the upper cover and spine decorated and lettered in black (minor chip and short tear on spine).

Presentation slip 'Überreicht vom Verfasser' pasted onto front free endpaper.
Th. de Speyr, 12 October 1916 (inkstamp on presentation slip).
Huldrych Martin Koelbing (bookplate on upper pastedown).

Specialist note

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. This copy was subsequently in the library of H.M. Koelbing, the medical historian and author of Renaissance der Augenheilkunde 1540-1630 (Bern and Stuttgart: 1967), Medizin, Arzt und Patient in Solschenizyns Krebsstation (Zurich: 1973), Im Kampf gegen Pocken, Tollwut, Syphilis : das Leben von Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Paul Ehrlich (Basel: 1974), Arzt und Patient in der antiken Welt (Zurich: 1977), Die ärztliche Therapie: Grundzüge ihrer Geschichte (Darmstadt: 1985) and other works. Waller 4590.