Description
Complete first edition set of A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, as edited by William Pepper.
Octavo, [five volumes], 1094pp; 1312pp; 1032pp; 877pp; 1326pp, [32pp ads]. Full leather, title in gilt on black morocco label affixed to spines. No additional printings listed. Solid text blocks, light wear to corners and spines, soiled covers. Some water damage along bottom half of Volumes III and IV. Previous ownership stamps and inscriptions to front endpapers. A very good, complete set of important works in the field of medicine.
Volume I: Pathology and General Diseases; Volume II: General Diseases (Continued) and Diseases of the Digestive System; Volume III: Diseases of the Respiratory, Circulatory and Haematopoietic Systems; Volume IV: Diseases of the Genito-Urinary and Cutaneous – Medical Ophthalmology, and Otology; and Volume V: Diseases of the Nervous System.
