Sir Charles Bell, Observations on injuries of the spine and of the thigh bone: in two lectures, delivered in the School of Great Windmill Street. The first in vindication of the author's opinions against the remarks of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. The second on the late Mr. John Bell's title to certain doctrines now advanced by the same gentleman. Quarto (33 x 25 cm): xv, [1], 101, [1], [ads, 2] pages, with five figures and nine engraved plates (with plate 9 bound in at front as frontispiece, two folding). FIRST edition. A very wide-margined copy, untrimmed. A very nice copy with a few minor faults (some what browned front endpaper; one small tear at the top of pages 53-54 (where the pages have evidently been opened clumsily); some light offsetting of plates (as usual), not serious; some old water-staining in about 10 pages and a couple of plates, in the lower margins. Quarter red buckram, fresh marbled boards, gilt spine. Blind stamp of the Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia on title. Ownership signature of Charles A. Carton. Overall, a very nice copy. The text of these two lectures is, as usual, in Bell's typical lucid style, and the nine plates, drawn by the author, are remarkably effective. The first lecture is given over to a criticism of some views by another famous surgeon of Bell's time, Sir Astley Paston Cooper. The second lecture is in support of his brother, John Bell, recently deceased, certain of whose findings had been claimed by Cooper as his own (Heirs of Hippocrates 1306).