first edition
Boston
by [Directors of the New England Hospital for Women and Children]
Boston: 1903. First edition. Approx. 9.25" x 6". 30, [2] pp. With 2 tissue-guarded plates of black-and-white photographic portraits showing Dr. Zakrzewska, c.1870 and 1896, advertisement slip on blue paper tipped-in at title page. Saddle-stiched in gray card wraps, title printed in black on upper cover. Diagonal crease at upper-right corner of pamphlet, minor wear and toning at edges, rusting to staples. Very Good. A scarce memorial publication dedicated to Polish-American physician and pioneering proponent of women in medicine Marie E. Zakrzewska, published by the Boston institution she founded in 1862. Zakrzewska had previously helped establish, with (truncated)