$185
Medical Books, Four Titles in Six Volumes. Including: Henri-François Le Dran's (1685-1770) Observations in Surgery , London: Hodges, 1740, octavo, second edition of the English translation, illustrated with two folding engraved plates, contemporary leather, worn and patched, 8 x 4 3/4 in.; Percivall Pott's (1714-1788), The Chirurgical Works , London: Lowndes et al., 1779, in three octavo volumes, illustrated with nine full and three folding plates, contemporary bindings, worn, ex library copies, 8 1/4 x 5 in.; John Bonnycastle's (1750?-1821) An Introduction to Astronomy , London: for J. Johnson, 1796, octavo, engraved frontispiece, third edition, with nineteen folding engravings, contemporary calf, good, 8 x 5 in.; [and] Harvey Cushing's The Pituitary Body and its Disorders , Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, [1912], large octavo, illustrated, publisher's burgundy cloth, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (6) Provenance: From the collection of B. Leonard Holman, M.D., Philip H. Cook Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, and Chairman, Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-05-23
