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MONRO (ALEXANDER)
A Description of All the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body... With Remarks on the Accidents and Diseases Which Affect Those Several Sacs, and on the Operations Necessary for their Cure, FIRST EDITION

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MONRO (ALEXANDER)

A Description of All the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body... With Remarks on the Accidents and Diseases Which Affect Those Several Sacs, and on the Operations Necessary for their Cure, FIRST EDITION, 10 engraved plates (4 folding on 2 sheets joined) after A. Fyfe and Thomas Donaldson, 2 with short tear not affecting image, nineteenth-century half calf, rubbed [Blake, p.309; Eimar 1011; Garrison & Morton 399.2; Wellcome 7807665], folio, Edinburgh, Charles Elliot, 1788

Footnotes

"The first serious study of this subject and most original anatomical work by the greatest of the Monro dynasty" (Garrison-Morton). Alexander Monro was professor of medicine and anatomy at Edinburgh University from 1758 until his death in 1817. Provenance: sold by a descendant of the author.

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