Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood.

8vo. xx, [17]-451, [1] pp. Original full sheep, gilt spine rules, black leather gilt-stamped spine label; joints with a couple of careful kozo reinforcements. At the foot of the spine is the ownership name of "J.E. Roberts", his signature also visible on the title-page (faint). Very good. First American edition. A collection of 39 lectures. "The greatest English pediatrist of his time, and perhaps the most genial practitioner of the art who ever lived, was Charles West, of London." "In 1847, he gave a course of lectures on diseases of children at Middlesex Hospital, the substance of his great work." [Abt, p. 89. "In its day this was the best English work on the subject, and was translated into several languages. West was one of the founders of the Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond Street, London." [Garrison and Morton 6334]. PROVENANCE: J.E. Roberts; (another unreadable). See Garrison and Morton 6334 (citing the London first edition of 1848). Abt, History of Pediatrics, p. 89; Grulee 1491; Levinson, Pioneers of Pediatrics, p. 59. First Edition.

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Publisher: Lea and Blanchard, 1850.

Year: 1850

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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