HUNTER, John. A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds, London: George Nicol, 1794, 4° (246 x 191mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait and 9 plates (each with library stamp, lacking last leaf containing the description of the final plate, first few leaves detached, soiled and spotted, a few ink marks), contemporary half calf (worn). [Blake p. 226; GM 2283; Grolier Medicine 52; Norman 1122; Waller 4997; Wellcome III, p. 317]

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HUNTER, John. A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds, London: George Nicol, 1794, 4° (246 x 191mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait and 9 plates (each with library stamp, lacking last leaf containing the description of the final plate, first few leaves detached, soiled and spotted, a few ink marks), contemporary half calf (worn). [Blake p. 226; GM 2283; Grolier Medicine 52; Norman 1122; Waller 4997; Wellcome III, p. 317]

Provenance

Medical Library Edinburgh, inscription to title and stamps; old annotations in ink to margins.

Lot Essay

GM: "It was while serving with the army at Belle Isle during the Seven Years' War that Hunter collected the material for his epoch-making book on inflammation and gunshot wounds. His studies on inflammation in particular are fundamental for pathology."

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