THE HAND.
Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design. Pp. xvi+428+32(publisher's catalogue, dated January 1852), engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, text illustrations, appendix, classification of animals; brown textured cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, boards a trifle rubbed, fore-corners bruised, lower joint cracked and worn, backstrip lifting and chipped at extremities; uncut; hinges cracking, binder's ticket at foot of lower pastedown, a few tiny edge splits or chips, little light foxing and soiling; John Murray, London, 1852. Fifth edition revised, with woodcuts. *Ex library copy, from the library of Revd. Owen Thomas, Liverpool; later from Bala Theological College, with inked number on verso of upper free endpaper and acquisition details on recto of frontispiece. *Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist and artist. 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. Item #148363
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