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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.
Contributor:
Pendleton, John B., 1798-1866, lithographer.
Pendleton, William S., 1795-1879, lithographer.
Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865, lithographer.
Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860, lithographer.
Edwards, Thomas, lithographer.
Main, William, 1796-1876, engraver.
Jocelyn, Nathaniel, 1796-1881, engraver.
Jocelyn, Simeon Smith, 1799-1879, engraver.
Edwin, David, 1776-1841, engraver.
Cotton, John, 1770?-1837, printer.
Richardson & Lord, publisher.
Cottons & Barnard, bookseller, publisher.
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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