2 Volume Set of Joseph Pancoast's 1853 Edition 'A Treatise on Operative Surgery'
PANCOAST, Joseph 'A Treatise on Operative Surgery; comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations'. Pub. PHILADELPHIA: A Hart, text 1853, plates undated. 'With 80 plates, third edition revised and enlarged'.
Plates in separate volume. Joseph Pancoast was an American Surgeon, who became known for cosmetic surgery specifically. He was Chairman of the Department of Surgery and then Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College.
Vol 1 text: half leather with marbled boards and hand labelled title, leather crumbling, foxed and tanned, some marks and squashed/crumpled end papers. Vol 2 plates: quarter leather and board, cover and endpapers in poor condition, plates re-attached with tape, tanning and foxing to colour plates, plates reassembled after moisture waving. Graphic surgical images involved. KF Russell tag. (Both 330x260mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $200-300