A Medico-legal Treatise on Malpractice and Medical Evidence:...
With Triple Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Provenance Elwell, John J. A Medico-legal Treatise on Malpractice and Medical Evidence: Comprising the Elements of Medical Jurisprudence. New York: Baker, Voorhies, 1871. Third edition, revised and enlarged. vi, 600 pp. Contemporary law sheep with red and black lettering pieces to spine. Blind frames to boards. Worn and scuffed with rubbing to spine. Previous owner's inscription "E.A. Wood/ Birmingham Nov. 13th 1871" to front pastedown. Second previous owner's inscription "N.G. Ayres,/ Sept. 8, 1902" to half-title page, otherwise internally clean. $150. * Third edition, revised and enlarged. "Two large editions having been exhausted since this work was first published, and another demanded, the author has thoroughly revised, corrected and enlarged the present edition" (Preface to Third Edition, iii). This copy has the nineteenth-century bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown of James B. Dodge, self-described in contemporary adverts as "Law Bookseller". It was owned by Dr. Eli Allen Wood (1836-1894), was eminent physician, surgeon, state senator, prolific medical writer, sometime President of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, as well as author of libretti for contemporary opera, who in 1871 inscribed this copy no doubt while living in Birmingham, Pennsylvania; and the attorney Nicholas Goshorn Ayres (1848-1918), who inscribed the half-title in 1902. All three lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so there is much geographical cohesion to the provenance as well.
Price: $150.00
Book number 82390