COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768-1841). Illustrations of the Diseases of the Breast; in two parts ... Part I (all published). London: Longman & others, 1829. 4o (312 x 250 mm). Errata slip, 9 lithographed plates, all but pl. IX handcolored, pl. IX printed on India proof paper and mounted (tiny spotting to a few plates, pl. IX and title lightly foxed). Later black quarter morocco, original boards (joints, spine-ends and corners rubbed, slight soiling to boards). FIRST EDITION. This monograph was to have had two parts, the first on non-malignant and the second on malignant tumours, but the second part was never completed. Cooper includes one of the earliest descriptions of hyper-plastic cystic disease of the breast, naming it "hyatid disease". Norman 511; Garrison-Morton-Norman 5769; Wellcome II 388.

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COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768-1841). Illustrations of the Diseases of the Breast; in two parts ... Part I (all published). London: Longman & others, 1829. 4o (312 x 250 mm). Errata slip, 9 lithographed plates, all but pl. IX handcolored, pl. IX printed on India proof paper and mounted (tiny spotting to a few plates, pl. IX and title lightly foxed). Later black quarter morocco, original boards (joints, spine-ends and corners rubbed, slight soiling to boards). FIRST EDITION. This monograph was to have had two parts, the first on non-malignant and the second on malignant tumours, but the second part was never completed. Cooper includes one of the earliest descriptions of hyper-plastic cystic disease of the breast, naming it "hyatid disease". Norman 511; Garrison-Morton-Norman 5769; Wellcome II 388.