Bell, Benjamin:

A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND MANAGEMENT OF ULCERS: WITH A DISSERTATION ON WHITE SWELLINGS OF THE JOINTS TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN ESSAY ON THE CHIRURGICAL TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. BY...MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, ONE OF THE SURGEONS TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.

Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1791. Original sheep [rubbed, front hinge starting] 295pp, one engraved plate [after page 56]. Text with scattered foxing, free endpaper tear. Good+. With the bookplate of Newton Southworth of Mattapoisett.

The first American edition, originally printed in Edinburgh in 1778. Thomas reprinted it in Boston in 1797.
Evans 23171. Austin 179. Item #15697

Price: $375.00