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Lot 499
[MEDICINE]. RUSSELL, John Rutherfurd (1816?1866). The Histo...
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[MEDICINE]. RUSSELL, John Rutherfurd (1816?1866). The History and Heroes of the Art of Medicine. London: John Murray, 1861. One volume in two, royal 8vo. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH 153 ADDITIONAL ENGRAVINGS, several folding, additional title?pages with ?extra?illustrated? printed above the imprint. Full green levant twice ruled in gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt?lettering and centerpieces in compartments, top edges gilt, gilt?dentelles, gilt stamp?signed by Riviere (spines a bit sunned, some sunning to upper cover of Part I). Provenance: John Taylor Bottomley (b. 1869), bookplate of an American surgeon and lecturer on surgery at Harvard. FIRST EDITION.
