Works Notes Edited by Hunter John (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Vol. 3 only. 638 pages. Ex-library. Reound in 20th century blue buckram.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto Rebound in attractive leather-backed boards.Spine gilt in compartments. Title-page , pps. (3) to 8 only text -" Explanation of Plates" (for plates 1 to 13) and FIFTY THREE attractive engraved plates only (of 61) Plate no's 1 to 26, 26*, 27 to 29, 31 to 43, 48 & 50 to 60. W. Skelton sculp. (Some mild browning/foxing to margins of some plates).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, Paternoster Row, 1837, four volumes, plus the Atlas Volume, complete, Later Edition. Publisher's half cloth and paper binding, worn and rubbed with some loss and splitting to the spine cloth, Vol I repaired, Atlas Volume with cracked paper to the hinge to the front but holding well. Plates tanned with some foxing. Pagination: Vol I xxiv, 643, [1]pp; Vol II xvi, 488pp; Vol III xx, 675pp; Vol IV xl, 506pp; Atlas Vol 27, [1], plus 61 plates (plate xxvi and xxvi*). Provenance: inscription to Allan C Sym M.D. from M. L. Phin to the front of Vol I with his ownership stamp. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall (22.5cm) text volumes; approximately 11 ½ inches tall (29cm) atlas volume. Condition Report Externally Spine fair to good condition structurally sound, worn with loss to the cloth, gilt titles. Joints fair good condition sound, rubbed and worn with some loss. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition worn and marked. Page edges good condition all edges are tanned, darkened to the top. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound, repaired to some. Paste downs good condition tanned paper paste downs. End papers good condition tanned paper end papers. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition tanned, some foxing to the plates. Binding fair to good condition sound, worn set.

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1837, 4°, 1 Portrait 27, (1) pp., 61 plates numbered 1-26, 26*, 27-60, fine half leather volume; minor spotting. First Edition! John Hunter (1728-1793) "gave a great impetus to the study of the morbid anatomy; he was the veritable founder of experimental and surgical pathology and one of the three greatest surgeons of all time. He was responsible for the commencement of some of the greatest medical museums, the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England was based on his own private collection; much of it was destroyed during an air raid in May, 1941.".

First collected edition, 4 volumes in 2, 8vo, plus quarto atlas; frontispiece portrait after Flaxman and folding facsimile in text volumes; atlas with 14 preliminary leaves, frontispiece portrait after Joshua Reynolds, and 59 (of 60) engraved plates - lacking plate 52: "Two specimens of Siren, or Mud Iguana from South Carolina." Nice enough set in recent quarter green morocco over green cloth sides, gilt lettering direct on spines. Bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Hunter (1728-1793) was an eminent anatomist and surgeon whose work on gun-shot wounds and inflammation brought him early prominence. "As an investigator, original thinker, and stimulator of thought, Hunter stands at the head of British surgeons" (DNB). Garrison-Morton 78; Heirs of Hippocrates 974.