Hodge, Caspar Wistar C W

Gospel History: A Syllabus Of Professor C.W. Hodge's Gospel History for The Use Of Students Of The Middle Class In Princeton Seminary

Princeton, Charles S Robinson, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. long inscriptions on front endpapers, some annotations in text, leather spine rubbed cracked, blind. Scarce 203pp Fair.

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Wistar, Caspar

A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students of Medicine Volume Two

Philadelphia, Penn, Thomas Dobson And Son, 1817. Hardcover. leather boards. 433 pgs w/ fold-out. Fair+ (front board detached. leather worn, rubbed & scuffed. corners rubbed. ex-libris & handwriting to cover pastedown; handwriting & doodling to cover endpapers. cover endpaper has title cut from pg; title pg has previous owners name cut-out. pgs tanned, foxed & smudged; text dark & legible; fold-out has strip of binding adhered to back) .

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Wistar, Caspar

A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thomas Dobson and Son, 1817. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two handsomely rebound exemplars of what appears to be the First Edition Thus state works of Caspar Wistar, M.D., the first of several key works he published in the practice and especially teaching of medicine. Each individual volume is a Second Edition. Caspar Wistar was born in 1761 and died a year after these volumes were published, in 1818. He commenced his medical training at age 16 as he tended to, if not treated, the wounded at the Battle of Germantown during the War for Independence, says the page devoted to him at www.lewis-clark dot org. That page notes his schooling at the Public School of Philadelphia and then the University of Pennsylvania before he sought and won the right to experience graduate school training overseas in Scotland with the noted syphilologist John Hunter (!). He was apparently so outstanding as a person and student that his fellows "elected him president of the Royal Medical Society and the Edinburgh Natural History Society." In 1808 he was appointed sole professor of anatomy, midwifery and surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. This set is complete in two volumes. Apparent Second Editions, both published in 1817, Volume I having been published originally in 1811, and Volume II, in 1814. Bound in a maroon paper over boards, black leather-backed format, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spines of "Wistar's Anatomy." Each volume is bound in short octavo format, measuring 8" tall x 5 1/4" wide. Tightly bound, new headbands sewn in, new heavy gray endpapers front and rear to both volumes. Heavily toned endpapers, lightly toned and soiled title page to first volume, penned and penciled names inscribed at first free original endpaper, else clean and unmarked of interior, though moderately waffled and toned text-blocks, and with moderate foxing here and there. First free original endpaper of Volume I with warm and loving inscription from a Gayle Wistar, dated to June 8, 1989, Bethesda, Maryland, thanking the previous owner, Dr. Lutz A. Kiesow, German chemical engineer, of Mountain Park, Oregon until his death, for his eulogy and care at the death of a relative, Richard Wistar, Jr., 26 April 1935 - 31 May 1989. Laid in also is a note-card in envelope written by and signed by the above Gayle Wistar, thanking him again but also noting that he was getting her family's treasure in exceeding thanks, "the first anatomy book published in America!" The page devoted to Caspar Wistar at www.lewis-clark dot org notes Wistar's birth to Quaker parents in 1761, his near loss of life in a duel, his interest in paleontology, and the fact that Thomas Jefferson, his friend, wrote to ask Wistar what questions he, Jefferson, should ask the soon-departing William Clark and Merewether Lewis in 1803. As an example of his interest in paleontology, Wistar read his "A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginiaâ€� in 1797 to the members of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He proposed the then preposterous idea of the former existence of a now extinct lion somewhere in the Southern United States. Wistar came to name it â€oemegalonyxâ€� - â€�giant claw.â€� Later, he came to proclaim it the bones of, not a lion, but of a giant ground sloth. In 1822 he named the species Megalonyx jeffersonii after his friend. Volume I: xii [1], 2-409 pp., and with a fine one-page black-and-white engraving by Lawson of the Ethnoid bone, description opposite; Volume II: viii [1], 2-433 [1], folding plate, then a long section of "Anatomical Plates From the Encyclopedia," [1], folding plate, 3-8, folding plate, 9-12, folding plate, 13-14, folding plate, 15-16, folding plate, 17-18, two folding plates, 19-20, folding plate, 21-22, folding plate, 23-24 pp. Complete and fully intact but with one short split tape-repaired is the folding plate that captures "A Table Exhibiting the Distribution of the Branches of the Aorta," said to be the first appearance of such. All in, a two-volume set with extreme provenance of two uber-important works in the history of medicine in the U.S. The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia was named after the author, and was founded in 1892 by Caspar Wistar's great-nephew, Isaac Jones Wistar. Among other things the Institute to this day contains the brains of 22 preeminent American anatomists and has become a world-leading hub of cancer- and vaccine-related research, treatment and prevention. See the Wikipedia entry for the Wistar Institute and also Richard Wistar Davids' 1896 Genealogy of the Wistar Family, available at the web-site "accessgenealogy dot com's" entry for "The Wistar-family-a-genealogy-of-the-descendants-of-Caspar-Wistar-emigrant-in-1717," available as a pdf.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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