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BELL, Charles. Engravings from Specimens of Morbid Parts, Presented in the Author's Collection, Now in Windmill Street, and selected from the Divisions Inscribed Urethra, Vesica, Ren, Morbosa, et Laesa. Fasisculus I (all published). London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1813.
2o (448 x 326 mm). 12 engraved plates (some foxing and staining). Late 19th-century half morocco (rubbing to edges). Provenance: Harvard, Medical School Library (ink stamp on title and verso of title).
FIRST EDITION (and only edition) of what Bell originally intended to be part of a much larger work. The twelve plates after drawings by Bell are life-size and of the greatest accuracy. Bell was one of the few nineteenth century surgeons to give precedence to pathology over complicated instruments in the treatment of strictures. Goldschmidt p. 103; Wellcome II, p. 136.
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FIRST EDITION (and only edition) of what Bell originally intended to be part of a much larger work. The twelve plates after drawings by Bell are life-size and of the greatest accuracy. Bell was one of the few nineteenth century surgeons to give precedence to pathology over complicated instruments in the treatment of strictures. Goldschmidt p. 103; Wellcome II, p. 136.