The Anatomy of the Human Ear Illustrated by a Series of Engravings ... with a treatise on the diseases of that organ ....

Philadelphia: B Warner, 1821. First American Edition.. full contemp. calf.. A good copy with overall uniform darkening to text pages; two fldg. plates with repaired tears (no loss). 8vo. There are four hand colored fldg. plates (one a startling head section).

This is the only printing to contain colored illustrations; the first was prtd. in London in 1806 as a sm. folio but the illus. to it are no larger than this American printing. There is a startling, dramatic section of the head and ear. Saunders is best known for his book on the eye. He was the first to advise paracentesis in acute middle ear supparation. An important book and early American color plate production. The book utilizes an American made paper of a particular kind that naturally darkens over the years. This is specific to the paper stock and is notable in a number of books printed in Philadelphia in these years. G - M # 3362 citing the English editon of 1806.