Item #237273 Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science. An introductory Lecture, Delivered Before the Medical Class of Harvard University, November 6th, 1861. Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D.

Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science. An introductory Lecture, Delivered Before the Medical Class of Harvard University, November 6th, 1861.

Boston: Ticknor and Fileds, 1862.

Price: $100.00


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First edition, BAL binding 1 (with "TICKNOR & CO." in gilt on spine). [iv], 80 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown ribbed cloth, spine stamped in gilt, spine ends and tips worn, contemporary ownership signature in pencil on first blank, a very good copy. BAL 8814; Currier/Tilton p. 105; Heirs of Hippocrates 1750; Cushing H408; Waller 4848.

Item #237273

This lecture, first presented in 1861 to Holmes' medical class at Harvard, closes with his poem, "The Two Armies"