Engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 handcolored aquatint plates. xvi, 597 pp. 1 vols. Small folio
1842 · Berlin
by Rust, Johann Nepomuk
Berlin: Enslin, 1842. First illustrated edition (originally published in 1811). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 handcolored aquatint plates. xvi, 597 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Green paper boards, uncut. Binding split. Pp. 567-572 with tears (no loss of text), else internally clean. First illustrated edition (originally published in 1811). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 handcolored aquatint plates. xvi, 597 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Rust (1775-1840) was a surgeon in Cracow, Lemberg, and Vienna, and professor of surgery in Berlin. His work on skin ulcers was first published in 1811, and late in life he began working on an expanded edition, completed after his death by B.M. Lessing and G. W. Eck, and published here with finely executed plates.
From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder, co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer (JAMA 143:329) and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal, Preventive Medicine. Hirsch V, 128 (Inventory #: 224913)
From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder, co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer (JAMA 143:329) and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal, Preventive Medicine. Hirsch V, 128 (Inventory #: 224913)