A System of Surgery Extracted From The Works Of…

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Second American edition. 8vo., Contemporary full marbled calf, red spine label. gilt title. 21x13x5 cm. Printed by Budd & Bartram for Thomas Dobson. Philadelphia. 1802. viii, 570, xxix pp. 12 engraved plates of surgical instruments. Very good, some offsetting from plates to facing pages, scattered light foxing, . Important early American work based on the work of the pioneering Scottish surgeon, John Bell. Bell is famous for his developments in vascular surgery. weight: 1.5 lb.