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THACHER, JAMES. American Medical Biography: or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians Who Have Flourished in America. To which is Prefixed a Succinct History of Medical Science in the United States...Two Volumes in One. Boston: Richardson & Lord and Cottons & Barnard, 1828. 1st ed. Thick 8vo. 436; 280 pp. 15 lithographic portraits by Pendleton. Contemp. gilt stamped calf covers, old rebacking with labels. Covers worn, text splitting at middle. Slight browning, but crisp & clean. $825.00

 

G-M 6710. Howes T 147. Shoemaker 35480. "...the first American medical biography...has preserved for posterity the names of many physicians that otherwise might have been lost...the chief source-book of the period; nearly always accurate..." --DAB. Scarce, with fifteen fine lithographs of physicians by Pendleton, drawn by D.C. Johnston, and others.