A system of surgery / by Benjamin Bell, in four volumes. Illustrated with one hundred [i.e. 99] copperplates.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
1791
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

[Worcester, Mass.] ; [Boston] : Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, by Isaiah Thomas; sold by him in Worcester, and by said Thomas and Andrews ..., Boston, 1791.

Physical description

4 volumes(xv pages, [16]-454 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; viii pages, [9]-392; vii pages, [8]-391 pages, 1 unnumbered page; vii pages, [8]-360 pages, 99 leaves of plates) : illustrations (engravings) ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition

The first American edition /

Notes

Imprint varies. Vol. 2-4: Printed at Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews ... Sold by them in Boston, and by said Thomas in Worcester
"Directions to bookbinder" at the end of each vol., on placing the plates
First ed. published in Edinburgh, 1783-88
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Supplier/Donor: Webb Dordick Note: Binding: Contemp. calf, rebacked. Bookplate of Morgan County Medical Society, Jacksonville, Ill., with words: "Gift of Dr T.J. Pitner ... 1905."
Copy 1 Vol. 2 Supplier/Donor: Webb Dordick Note: Binding: Contemp. calf, rebacked. Bookplate of Morgan County Medical Society, Jacksonville, Ill., with words: "Gift of Dr T.J. Pitner ... 1905."
Copy 1 Vol. 3 Supplier/Donor: Webb Dordick Note: Binding: Contemp. calf, rebacked. Bookplate of Morgan County Medical Society, Jacksonville, Ill., with words: "Gift of Dr T.J. Pitner ... 1905."
Copy 1 Vol. 4 Supplier/Donor: Webb Dordick Note: Binding: Contemp. calf, rebacked. Bookplate of Morgan County Medical Society, Jacksonville, Ill., with words: "Gift of Dr T.J. Pitner ... 1905."

References note

Austin 172
Austin, R. B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 172
ESTC W22414
Evans, 23168
Evans, 23169

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Holdings

  • Complete set

Where to find it

  • Vol. 1

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    EPB/AM/USA.104.v1
  • Vol. 2

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    EPB/AM/USA.104.v2
  • Vol. 3

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    Closed stores
    EPB/AM/USA.104.v3
  • Vol. 4

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    Closed stores
    EPB/AM/USA.104.v4

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