A SYSTEM OF OPERATIVE SURGERY BY CHARLES BELL 1807

[BELL, CHARLES (1774-1842)]. A System of Operative Surgery, Founded of the Basis of Anatomy. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807.

First edition. Volume one only of two. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (240 x 150 x 40 mm.). Pp. xxvi, 448. Contemporary half-calf, smooth spine gilt, marbled paper-covered boards. With 14 full-page engraved plates by J. Stewart after Bell's drawings; numerous engraved figures after Bell in-the-text. Condition: Text lightly browned and soiled in places, plates largely clean, binding secure but particularly rubbed to extremities and joints, contemporary inscription to front endpaper. Scarce.

Notes: FIRST EDITION of the first English handbook of operative surgery founded on anatomy, scarce in the original edition. Volume 2 was published in 1809 (here lacking). [Garrison-Morton 5583; Gordon-Taylor 7; Heirs of Hippocrates 782; Zimmerman & Veith 410-13].