Author: OSLER, Sir William
Title: Bibliotheca Osleriana. A catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science, collected, arranged and annotated by sir William Osler and bequethed to McGill University.
Description: Montreal, London, McGill-Queens University Press, 1969. 4to. Original red publ. cloth, spine giltlettered. (XLII, 792 [705-792 index and addenda] pp.). Reprint of the ed. 1929 with addenda & corrigenda. 'Not long before the "Bibliotheca Osleriana" was published, A. W. Pollard wrote that Osler had dreamed of an ideal bibliography and that 'he really saw the projected catalogue of his library as a kind of pageant.' Forty years after it first appeared the pageant is as bright as ever. ... He himself thought a good bibliography one of the best tickets to immortality. If he was right, he and his editors produced a most impressive ticket and established a remarkable claim. In 1969 the ticket is still bright and new and the claim still seems valid.'[from the prologue p. XIV]: Indispensible reference work.

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