Bonhams 1793 : CARSWELL (ROBERT) Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Disease, 1838

Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Disease, first edition in book form, 48 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Carswell, moderate spotting and tonal browning to a few plates, 180mm. tear across title (and flyleaf) with slight loss, dedication, final leaf and facing page soiled, institutional blindstamp on title and final leaf, title and final leaf detached, contemporary panelled calf, t.e.g., worn, covers detached, spine defective [Garrison-Morton 2291; Goldschmid 156; Heirs of Hippocrates 1501; Norman 408; Osler 2250; Wellcome II p.306], folio (376 x 275mm.), Longman, 1838

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"The plates for his [i.e. Carswell's] great work on pathological anatomy were furnished from his own drawings and put upon the stone by himself. These illustrations have, for artistic merit and for fidelity, never been surpassed, while the matter represents the highest point which the science of morbid anatomy had reached before the introduction of the microscope" (Osler, Bibliotheca Osleriana).

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