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Hardcover, bound in genuine tan top-grain cowhide, with all edges gilt and covers brass-die stamped in 22kt gold. Two volumes in one, complete. 276 and 395 pages. Notes, Index.. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, raised spine hubs and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by the Sherwood Bindery Division of Kingsport Press. This volume was prepared from the original 1848-185- edition. First edition thus, number 921, though the original subscriber’s book-plate is lacking from this copy, the other 150 odd titles in his collection from the Classics of Medicine Library were numbered as such (usually with book-plates laid-in loose and unused). Sydenham was a promiment 17th century English physician whose work Observationes Medicae (1676) became a standard textbook of medicine for two next centuries, which was influential in his being referred to as ‘The English Hippocrates’. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and unread copy. As new.