COXE, John Redman

The Philadelphia Medical Dictionary: Containing A Concise Explanation of All the Terms Used in Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacy, Botany, Natural History, Chemistry, and Materia Medica

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson and Son, 1817. Second Edition. Octavo (22cm). Contemporary sheep, rebacked, with original black leather label laid down; plain endleaves; viii,433,[3]; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead to front pastedown. Straight and sound, though rebacked, with free endpapers reattached, renewed flyleaves, foxing to endleaves with minor scattered foxing to text: around Very Good.

Coxe, an early and vocal proponent of vaccination, was a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The first edition of his Philadelphia Medical Dictionary was published in 1808. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40583.

Price: $150.00

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