Price: £850
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1819
Stock Number: 56940
(Your basket is currently empty)First American, from the last London edition. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II].
Description: 2 vols., with 15 engraved plates, some folding, browning, foxing, water-staining, pp. [vi], xxvii, 437; [iv], 433, [6, ads], 8vo; modern calf backed boards, both titles signed J.W.C. O'NealPublication Details: Philadelphia: Published by James Webster. William Brown, Printer. 1819
Notes: A well-used copy, but one with an interesting association. This was probably a text book used by O'Neal while a student at Pennsylvania College (now, Gettysburg College), where he began his studies in 1844, and there are a few marginal marks and underlinings indicative of this. O'Neal practised medicine in Gettysburg for 40 years, and was a pillar of the community. His chief claim to fame was in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg: 'Having tended to so many wounded, O'Neal began shortly after the battle's end to record names and burial places of soldiers who had died. He worked together ...more
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