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Lot 185

Sale 4439 - The Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 10, 2015 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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2 vols.


2 vols.
(Medical Manuscript.) [Rush, Benjamin.] Extracts from a Course of Lectures on the Institutes & Practice of Medicine Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania by Benjamin Rush, M.D.... Taken by Edmund Sheppard, Student of Medicine ... 1812. [Phila, 1812-1813.]
4to, contemp 1/2 russia & marbled bds; rubbed. In ink, manuscript titles in each vol, 306 & 310 leaves, all but 6 leaves in vol 1 on rectos only. With 16 pp index of first lines of lectures inserted. Leaf size 8 x 6 1/8 in; 200 x 155 mm. Edmund Sheppard's ink signatures, dated 1812, on ffep rectos. Some smudging, a few small tears, but textually intact & completely legible. 20th-cenutry book plate of Frank P. Andrews on paste-down.

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