MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
CURSCHMANN, HEINRICH. 1846-1910. Klinische Abbildungen. [Clinical Illustrations.] Berlin: Julius Springer, 1894.
Folio (325 x 220 mm). [86] pp. 57 heliogravure plates. 4 pp publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Brown cloth, morocco spine label titled in gilt. Folding plate hinged with cloth tape, textblock cracked at center, smudges to blank margins of a few plates, spine mildly scuffed.
Provenance: Kings County Medical Society Library (inkstamp to title and to verso of plates).
FIRST EDITION of a pioneering work of medical photography, "a masterpiece of the genre" (Anderson & Dietrich The Educated Eye p 90). With publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.
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