Author: SMITH, NATHAN
Title: MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MEMOIRS
Description: Birmingham, Alabama, Gryphon/The Classics of Surgery Library, 1987. 1987. Hardcover . Hardback, 8vo, nearly 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, gilt titles and decorations on dark olive leather, 374 pages, Fine condition. Spine with three simulated raised bands, all edges gilt, olive green place-marker ribbon, faux marbled endpapers. Personalized limitation bookplate (gilt on black leather) affixed to front pastedown stating #1143 of 7,500 copies. Publisher's brochure laid-in. Smith was a professor at Yale and these memoirs weren't originally published until two years after his death. (They were published in 1831, by his son, Nathan R. Smith, a professor of surgery at the Univesity of Maryland.) , Fine.

Keywords: Medicine Surgery