Hard Cover
1856 · New York
by Root, Harmon Knox
New York: Published by the Proprietor, 512 Broadway, and A. Ranney, 195 Broadway, 1856. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Thirteenth edition, revised. Edges rubbed with some loss from joints, front hinge starting, foxed throughout with quite a bit of transfer. 1856 Hard Cover. xxiii, 470, [2] pp. 8vo. Original dark brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles and decorations, including boat and lighthouse motif on front board, and apothecary scales motif on spine head. Illustrated with 65 engravings. Hoolihan 3025: "Edward Bliss Foote... describes Root as 'a kind of irregular soldier in medical reform... He possessed a remarkable tact for formulating (truncated)