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OSLER, WILLIAM AN ALABAMA STUDENT and other Biographical Essays
Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press 1929, 2nd printing, hb cloth. Ill.: frontispiece. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo, pp. 334. Thirteen essays on noted subjects, viz: Keats, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Locke, Fracastorius, Harvey and others. ¶ A relatively obscure Osler title, consisting of a collection of previously-published essays written to illustrate, for the most part, the higher ideals of the medical profession by reference to the lives of the subjects of these essays. The great Canadian-born physician and teacher never taught, or practiced, in Alabama, the subject of the title of this book being Dr. John Y. Bassett, of Huntsville, Alabama, who, in the 1830s, apparently abandoned his family to travel to Paris to learn from the great medical savants of the day. See G&M 6722. Ink name and date of former owner on front free endpaper; otherwise text unmarked. Boards sl. worn and bumped at edges. Binding sl. stressed with consequent sl. loosening of signatures. Overall, the book is in good plus, to just less than very good, condition. The scarce original dust jacket has small pieces missing from the head and tail of the spine, and is a bit chipped at edgs. The spine is darkened. It appears to have been price-clipped. Overall, still in good condition for age.
Offered for US$ 85.00 by: Greenfield Books - Book number: 032845
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