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American medical biography: or, Memoirs of eminent physicians who have flourished in America : to which is prefixed a succinct history of medical science in the United States, from the first settlement of the country / by James Thacher ... ; two volumes in one ...
LIBRA - Rare R153 .T32 1828b v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thacher, James, 1754-1844, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--United States--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Medicine--United States--History.
- Medicine.
- United States.
- physicians.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine.
- Physicians.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Lithographs -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1828.
- Subscribers list.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (436; 280 pages, [15] leaves of plates) : portraits ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Memoirs of eminent physicians who have flourished in America
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Richardson & Lord, 1828.
- Boston : Cottons & Barnard
- Notes:
- "Printed by John Cotton": title page verso (volume 1)
- Subscribers names: volume 2, pages [275]-280.
- Includes 12 lithographs by the Pendletons, D.C. Johnston, R. Peale, and Edwards, all published by the Pendletons. 3 stipple engravings by Main, the Jocelyns, and Edwin. The Main engraving printed by Ridley.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by an anonymous donor.
- LIBRA Rare copy: volume 2 has a few manuscript notes and marks in pencil in text.
- Cited in:
- Stauffer, D.M. Amer. engravers, 846, 2160
- OCLC:
- 830534894
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