8vo (253 x 162 mm). Half-title; 363 wood-engraved illustrations after H. V. Carter (a few with veins and arteries hand-colored by a previous owner); with final blank. (Lacking 80pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some spotting or staining. Contemporary sheep (worn, joints starting, front free endpaper pasted down). Provenance: Thomas R. White (bookplate, signature 1892); Theodore J. Barry (gift inscription from White).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "The first edition of 1858 was found to have a good many errors, most of which were corrected in the 1859 edition" (Heirs of Hippocrates, 1915).