From the Collection of the late Dr. Eugene H. Courtiss
ZEIS, Eduard. Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie. Foreword by Johann Friedrich. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1838. 8o. 2 folding hand-colored engraved plates printed in sepia, woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary German mottled black board (a little wear to extremities), gilt-lettered orange leather spine label. Provenance: Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings and Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn (bookplate and stamps with withdrawal inscription on pastedown and title verso).
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ZEIS, Eduard. Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie. Foreword by Johann Friedrich. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1838. 8o. 2 folding hand-colored engraved plates printed in sepia, woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary German mottled black board (a little wear to extremities), gilt-lettered orange leather spine label. Provenance: Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings and Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn (bookplate and stamps with withdrawal inscription on pastedown and title verso).
FIRST EDITION OF THE WORK THAT INTRODUCED THE TERM "PLASTIC SURGERY," AND THE FIRST HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT. "The first half of the work covers the general principles of plastic surgery, and the first history of the subject. The second half describes the special operative techniques required for the individual parts of the body" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5743.4). RARE.
FIRST EDITION OF THE WORK THAT INTRODUCED THE TERM "PLASTIC SURGERY," AND THE FIRST HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT. "The first half of the work covers the general principles of plastic surgery, and the first history of the subject. The second half describes the special operative techniques required for the individual parts of the body" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5743.4). RARE.