Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph

Medical Portrait Gallery: Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, Surgeons, etc. etc. Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew [4 volumes]

London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1838. Hardcover. 4 volumes: 49 steel-engraved portraits, 2 leaves of engraved facsimiles, folded; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; author and volumed number in fourth compartment. Dark green cloth over boards. All page edges marbled. Green and black marbled endpapers. Bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper of each volume: "H. Kimpton, Medical Bookseller. 82, High Holborn." Unusual former owner's bookplate on each front fixed endpaper consisting of a small cutout of a boar's head? above "Christr. Hunter." Circular embossed stamp at lower edge of each title page of the Presbyterian Hospital Library, Philadelphia. Consists of 60 biographical essays of people important in medical history, each essay separately paginated, from 4 to 40 pages long. Garrison-Morton, #671. A heavy set; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: bindings are rubbed and lightly soiled; lacking 4 plates from vol. 1: Marie Francois Xiavier Bichat, Astley Paston Cooper, Thomas Linacre, and John Baptist Margagni; 5 plates from vol. 2: Richard Bright, Benjamin Collins Brodie, John Hunter, Edward Jenner, Marcellus Malpighi, and Andreas Vesalius; 1 plate from vol. 3: Herman Boerhaave; and 1 plate from vol. 4: William Harvey; text is complete; foxing, primarily at edges of plates; otherwise, clean and tight. Good. Item #008888

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