拍品 1112
1112
HEBERDEN, William (1710-1801). Commentaries on the history and cure of diseases. London: T. Payne, 1802. 8o. (Some light browning to text). Contemporary gilt-bordered calf (rebacked, preserving original gilt spine, corners repaired). Provenance: Rev. Sir George Lee, Baronet Hartwell (2 engraved armorial bookplates); Amelia Barr (label recording her gift to the University of the South); University of the South (stamp on title). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, published in the same year as the first Latin edition. Samuel Johnson called Heberden "ultimus romanorum, the last of our learned physicians", and this volume contains all of his most important medical papers, including that on angina pectoris, the first scientific description of all the symptoms. Heberden was the first to describe the most characteristic symptom of this condition, the oppression or pain in the chest. Heirs of Hippocrates 910; Wellcome III, p.230; Norman 1033. -- An introduction to the study of physic (now for the first time published) ... A prefatory essay by LeRoy Crummer, with a reprint of Heberden's Some account of a disorder of the breast. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1929. 8o. Uncut. Photogravure frontispiece after Heberden's portrait by Sir William Beechey (1753-1839), signed by LeRoy Crummer on the title page, six text illustrations. With a typed letter signed to Leroy Crummer tipped in, from Arnold Chaplain, Harveian Librarian of the Royal College of physicians, thanking him for the donation of "three volumes of manuscripts in the handwriting of the great Dr. William Heberden, the elder, our English Hippocrates". Original quarter cloth, paper spine label, plum boards, matching slipcase. Provenance: Myrtle A. Crummer (Mrs. LeRoy Crummer), the dedicatee (inscribed by the author on the dedication page, beneath the printed "To M.A.C", "whose efforts and assistance throughout are responsible for its [illegible] LeRoy Crummer". FIRST EDITION, NO. 205 OF 230 COPIES, THE DEDICATION COPY. Norman 1034. (2)

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HEBERDEN, William (1710-1801). Commentaries on the history and cure of diseases. London: T. Payne, 1802. 8o. (Some light browning to text). Contemporary gilt-bordered calf (rebacked, preserving original gilt spine, corners repaired). Provenance: Rev. Sir George Lee, Baronet Hartwell (2 engraved armorial bookplates); Amelia Barr (label recording her gift to the University of the South); University of the South (stamp on title). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, published in the same year as the first Latin edition. Samuel Johnson called Heberden "ultimus romanorum, the last of our learned physicians", and this volume contains all of his most important medical papers, including that on angina pectoris, the first scientific description of all the symptoms. Heberden was the first to describe the most characteristic symptom of this condition, the oppression or pain in the chest. Heirs of Hippocrates 910; Wellcome III, p.230; Norman 1033. -- An introduction to the study of physic (now for the first time published) ... A prefatory essay by LeRoy Crummer, with a reprint of Heberden's Some account of a disorder of the breast. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1929. 8o. Uncut. Photogravure frontispiece after Heberden's portrait by Sir William Beechey (1753-1839), signed by LeRoy Crummer on the title page, six text illustrations. With a typed letter signed to Leroy Crummer tipped in, from Arnold Chaplain, Harveian Librarian of the Royal College of physicians, thanking him for the donation of "three volumes of manuscripts in the handwriting of the great Dr. William Heberden, the elder, our English Hippocrates". Original quarter cloth, paper spine label, plum boards, matching slipcase. Provenance: Myrtle A. Crummer (Mrs. LeRoy Crummer), the dedicatee (inscribed by the author on the dedication page, beneath the printed "To M.A.C", "whose efforts and assistance throughout are responsible for its [illegible] LeRoy Crummer". FIRST EDITION, NO. 205 OF 230 COPIES, THE DEDICATION COPY. Norman 1034. (2)