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"