Medicine.- Surgery.- Bell (Benjamin) Cours complet de
Medicine.- Surgery.- Bell (Benjamin) Cours complet de Chirurgie théorique et pratique, 6 vol., first edition in French, half-title to vol.1 and 5 only, 99 engraved plates, spotted, some offsetting and staining, lightly browned, 19th century roan-backed marbled boards, spines gilt, including name 'A. Verneuil', spine ends chipped, rubbed, [G&M 5579 (first edition) 'his best work'; Heirs of Hippocrates 672; Wellcome II, 135], Paris, Théophile Barrois the younger, 1796; and a second edition of Samuel Sharp on surgery, 1750, 8vo (7)
⁂ 'The clarity and precision with which it was written provided a model for later nineteenth century surgical works' (Heirs of Hippocrates).
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Medicine.- Surgery.- Bell (Benjamin) Cours complet de Chirurgie théorique et pratique, 6 vol., first edition in French, half-title to vol.1 and 5 only, 99 engraved plates, spotted, some offsetting and staining, lightly browned, 19th century roan-backed marbled boards, spines gilt, including name 'A. Verneuil', spine ends chipped, rubbed, [G&M 5579 (first edition) 'his best work'; Heirs of Hippocrates 672; Wellcome II, 135], Paris, Théophile Barrois the younger, 1796; and a second edition of Samuel Sharp on surgery, 1750, 8vo (7)
⁂ 'The clarity and precision with which it was written provided a model for later nineteenth century surgical works' (Heirs of Hippocrates).
