B. Harwood, M. D., F. R. S. And F. S. A. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge, &c. HARWOOD (Sir Busick). A System of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. Vol. I. [ All Published ]. Printed by J. Burges Printer to the University; And Sold By W. H. Lunn, and J. Deighton Cambridge; Messrs. White, Fleet-Street, and J. Walter, Charing-Cross, London; And J. Cook, Oxford, Cambridge, 1796.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: 1796 First Edition. Size slim square quarto, 72 pages plus 15 pages of plates at the rear. Bound in modern brown cloth Birdsall & Son of Northampton, with gilt titles and vignette to the spine. Condition very good, corners and spine ends a little rubbed, some light spotting and dust soiling at front and rear pages including to the margins of the final plate, else the contents are very clean throughout. Contains 15 full page engraved plates at the rear of the book. The plates depict skulls and other bones in the head of various different animals and birds. The title states volume I, This was intended as a projected work in two volumes of five fascicules, but this first fascicule was the only one ever published. Harwood was a professor of anatomy at Cambridge and an early developer of blood transfusion techniques. OCLC lists only ten copies and no copies sold at auction have been traced. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall

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