Three C19th Volumes by Sir Charles Bell (1811), William Basham (1858) and Thomas Morton (1839) and regarding the Arteries, Dropsy and the Groin.
1) BELL, Charles (1774-1842) 'Engravings of the Arteries; illustrating The Second Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body, and serving as An Introduction to the Surgery of the Arteries'.
Pub. LONDON: Pub. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Paternoster Row; and T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand. Printers: J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street London, 1811, 3rd Edition, 55pp.
Bell was one of the most outstanding anatomists and surgeon of his time. An excellent draftsman.
Quarter brown leather with marbled board cover, top board separated and spine crumbling, missing piece, heavy foxing to endpapers, some foxing to inner pages, tanning, marks, red and blue colour to pics, 14 Plates, Plate II lacking part of the diagram, others intact.
Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica KF Russell. (145x235mm)
2) BASHAM, William Richard (1804-1877) 'On Dropsy connected with Disease of the Kidneys (Morbus Brightii) and on some other diseases of those organs, associated with Albuminous and Purulent Urine, illustrated by numerous drawings from the microscope'. Pub. LONDON John Churchill, New Burlington Street, 1858, printed by J.E. Adlard Bartholomew Close. 241pp.
Basham was physician to Westminster Hospital.
Quarter tan leather and green board cover with gold embossed 'Library of Melbourne label and insignia' to cover and title to spine, marbled endpapers and edges, some foxing with tanning, 'cancelled' stamp on first end page, some shelf wear, 10 Plates, (no Bookplate). (140x220mm)
3) MORTON, Thomas (1813-1849) 'The Surgical Anatomy of the Groin, the Femoral, and Popliteal Regions'. Pub. LONDON: Taylor and Walton, 28 Upper Gower Street, 1839, printed by Samuel Bentley, Bangor House Shoe Lane, London. 207pp plus adverts (some bound on smaller pages).
Morton studied at the University College London, admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1835, and eventually became demonstrator and full surgeon at North London Hospital, as well as Surgeon to the Queen's Bench Prison. He was a teacher of anatomy and practising surgeon.
Morton studied at the University College London, admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1835, and eventually became demonstrator and full surgeon at North London Hospital, as well as Surgeon to the Queen's Bench Prison. He was a teacher of anatomy and practising surgeon.
Blue buckram cover with chips and marks, sunning, shelf wear, yellow endpapers rubbed, coloured pics, 8 Colour Plates, mostly intact except: Plate IV is delicate with damage/torn and lacking pieces (image mostly intact), 6cm cut to Plate VII, minor foxing and tanning.
Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell Bookplate and another penned name to endpaper. (160x260mm)

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

Estimate $150-200