THE HAND.
Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design. Pp. xvi+314, text illustrations, publisher's device on title page, appendix; demy 8vo; full calf, spine decorated in gilt around raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title label, the boards with double gilt rule border and gilt edges, slightly rubbed; marbled edges and matching endpapers, dentelles decorated in blind; ribbon marker; upper hinge tender; William Pickering, London, 1833. Second edition. *The fourth volume of Bridgewater Treatises commissioned by the 8th Earl of Bridgewater, to explore 'the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in Creation'. Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He was the first professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the College of Surgeons in London and helped establish the Medical School at the University of London. Later he was Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. Item #148359
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