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Description: First Edition. BAL 8732. Publisher's cloth; (BAL notes several cloth variants, without assigned or assumed priority). This copy doesn't appear to conform to any of those; in 'S' purple cloth, without stamping. Presentation copy, but the top of the front free endpaper is excised removing the recipient's name, leaving the inscription '.from his friend, O.W. Holmes.' Some foxing and pencil scribbling; good to very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 8vo. xiv, (2), 371pp. Folding map frontispiece with the state borders outlined by hand in colors. Brown ribbon-embossed cloth (oak-leaf and acorn pattern), gilt spine title. A couple of short closed tears at the spinal extremities and a few scattered spots of light foxing in the text. A lovely, very near fine copy. Holmes's first book of prose and first medical book, comprising three essays: "Dissertation on Intermittent Fever in New England" (which the map accompanies), "Dissertation on Neuralgia," and "Dissertation on Direct Exploration." This copy is Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to William Hussey Page, a prominent Boston physician of the time who later moved west: "Mr. W.H. Page from his friend O.W. Holmes." Beneath the inscription the recipient has added a date "Feb. 18, 1852." and "Vol. 98"; the latter designation he repeated and added his name "Wm. H. Page" on the final text leaf. The Boylston Prize awards helped the young Dr. Holmes inaugurate his successful career as a professor of medicine. The first book in his literary career was a collection of poems that appeared two years earlier. Ives, *Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes*, p. 161; *BAL* 8732. A beautiful, very near fine copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. xiv, (2), 371 pp. Folding map frontispiece, state borders outlined by hand in colors. Brown ribbon-embossed cloth (oak-leaf and acorn pattern), gilt spine title. A couple of short closed splits at the spine extremities and a few scattered spots of light foxing in the text. A handsome, near fine copy. First edition. Holmes's first book of prose and first book in medicine, comprising three essays: "Dissertation on Intermittent Fever in New England" (which the map accompanies), "Dissertation on Neuralgia," and "Dissertation on Direct Exploration." On the front free endpaper, this copy is inscribed by the author, "Mr. W.H. Page from his friend O.W. Holmes," for William Hussey Page, a prominent Boston physician of the time who later moved west. Beneath the inscription the recipient added a date "Feb. 18, 1852." and "Vol. 98"; the latter designation he repeated and added his name "Wm. H. Page" on the final text leaf. The Boylston Prize awards helped the young Dr. Holmes inaugurate his successful career as a professor of medicine. The first book in his literary career was a collection of poems that appeared two years earlier. Ives, Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, p. 161; BAL 8732.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.