first edition
1828 · Boston
by Thacher, James, M.D.
Boston: Richardson & Lord and Cottons & Barnard, 1828. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, as issued; 8vo, pp. vi, [3], 10-436; [5], 6-280; uncut; full complement of the plates, including the lithograph frontispiece portrait of the author plus 14 lithograph portraits of physicians by Pendleton; recent plain wrappers, added paper labels on upper cover and spine; a few insignificant tears (never any loss of text); very good. "The first American medical biography ... has preserved for posterity the names of many physicians that otherwise might have been lost ... the chief source book of the period; nearly always accurate" (DAB). Howes T-147; American Imprints 35480.
(Inventory #: 54919)