Lot 234, Auction 4/12/2024: Early Medical Books – Syphilis, Scarlet Fever, Diabetes
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Lot 234, Auction 4/12/2024: Early Medical Books – Syphilis, Scarlet Fever, Diabetes

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(1) Erasmus Wilson “On Syphilis, Constitutional and Hereditary; and on Syphilitic Eruptions” Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1852. 284 pp. with 4 colored plates; (2) W. Tyler Smith “The Pathology and Treatment of Leucorrhoea” Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1855. 199 pp; (3) George Budd “On Diseases of the Liver” 3rd American Ed. From the 3rd revised London Ed. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1857. 499 pp with colored plates and woodcuts; (4) Caspar Morris “An Essay on the Pathology and Therapeutics of Scarlet Fever” Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1858. 192 pp; (5) John M. Camplin “On Diabetes, and Its Successful Treatment” from the 2nd London Ed. New York: S. S. & W. Wood, 1861. 87 pp; (6) Howard Franklin Damon “Leucocythemia: An Essay, to which was awarded the Boylston Medical Prize of Harvard University for 1863” Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1864. 93 pp. Size of largest (“Photographic”): 9.5″ L x 1.5″ W x 12″ H (24.1 cm x 3.8 cm x 30.5 cm)

(7) George Henry Fox “Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis” New York: E.B. Treat, 1881. 104 pp. with 48 hand-colored plates from life; (8) Wells P. Eagleton “Cavernous Sinus Thrombophlebitis and Allied Septic and Traumatic Lesions of the Basal Venous Sinuses. A Clinical Study of Blood Stream Infection” New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. 196 pp.

**For Serious Buyers Only: In the absence of a definitive collation for these books, please inquire regarding numbers and conditions of specific illustrated plates and pages.**

Condition: All have wear to covers with bending to corners, fraying, stains, and rubbing in areas. Discoloring to pages with some small folds, tears, and creases, but text is nicely preserved and still legible. Marks, labels, and stamps from previous owners and libraries throughout. Pages and plates have not been collated. Please inquire for more detail regarding number and condition of specific plates and pages.

Provenance: private Goldstein collection, Denver, Colorado, USA. The Goldstein’s have amassed their collection over the past six decades.

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