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HUNTER, John (1728-1793). A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds ... to which is prefixed a short account of the author's life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home. London: John Richardson for George Nicol, 1794.
4o (260 x 207 mm). Frontispiece portrait engraving by W. Sharp after Sir Joshua Reynolds. 9 engraved plates by William Skelton (some text and plates foxed and browned, some light offsetting to title-page from engraved frontispiece). Contemporary half black leather, marbled boards (rebacked, corners and boards worn). Provenance: Charles Singer (1876-1960), science historian (inscription and his notes on front free endpages).
FIRST EDITION OF HUNTER'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK. A compound of physiology, pathology and surgery, and full of original observations and comments. The last work to be issued from Hunter's private press on Castle Street (but imprint given as J. Richardson), as Hunter died during the printing. The final printing was overseen by Mathew Baillie and Sir Everard Home, who also added the biography to the work. Home was Hunter's pupil, brother-in-law and executor for his estate. After Hunter's death, Home refused to hand over Hunter's notes and manuscripts to the College of Surgeons, but used them in preparing works to be published under his own name, and finally, in 1823, burnt the vast majority of the archive. Garrison-Morton 2283; Grolier Medicine 52; Heirs of Hippocrates 972; NLM/Blake, p. 226; Osler 1230; Waller 4997; Wellcome III, p. 317; Norman 1122.
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FIRST EDITION OF HUNTER'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK. A compound of physiology, pathology and surgery, and full of original observations and comments. The last work to be issued from Hunter's private press on Castle Street (but imprint given as J. Richardson), as Hunter died during the printing. The final printing was overseen by Mathew Baillie and Sir Everard Home, who also added the biography to the work. Home was Hunter's pupil, brother-in-law and executor for his estate. After Hunter's death, Home refused to hand over Hunter's notes and manuscripts to the College of Surgeons, but used them in preparing works to be published under his own name, and finally, in 1823, burnt the vast majority of the archive. Garrison-Morton 2283; Grolier Medicine 52; Heirs of Hippocrates 972; NLM/Blake, p. 226; Osler 1230; Waller 4997; Wellcome III, p. 317; Norman 1122.