Presentation copy from Whittier
Border lines of knowledge in some provinces of medical science. An introductory lecture...
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. First edition, 8vo, pp. [9], 6-80; original brown cloth, BAL's binding 1; some cracking at the top of the spine, else a near fine copy, inscribed on the flyleaf by John Greenleaf Whittier: "Dr. T. Sparhawk from his fd [friend?] John G. Whittier, 24th 1st mo. 1862." The book was published just 2 days earlier, on January 22. Dr. Sparhawk, from Whittier's home town of Amesbury, Mass., was an early and intimate friend of Whittier's, and the father of the author Frances Campbell Sparhawk. BAL 8814. Item #42275
Price: $1,250.00
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