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Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man. Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons by W. Lawrence, F.R.S. ... With twelve engravings.
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LAWRENCE, Sir William (1783--1867)
Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man. Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons by W. Lawrence, F.R.S. ... With twelve engravings.
London (Place), printed for J. Callow, medical bookseller,, 1819.
xxiii, [1], 579, [1] p., [12] pl. (7 fold.) ; 21.1 cm. (8º)
Includes a final page of publisher's advertisements. Lawrence's provocative political opinions on the superior facilities enjoyed by French science and on the scientific enquiry into the origins of man led to widespread condemnation, and the author was eventually obliged to withdraw the present first edition of his Lectures from sale.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on third free-endpaper - Soane Esq. / Lincoln's Inn Fields; / with the respectful compliments / of the Author.
Binding 19th calf, thin-thick-thin gilt-ruled borders with small rose cornerpieces, thin-thick-thin gilt-ruled spine, red leather spine-labels, marbled edges to match the endpapers. Bound by Hood & McCullock for 5s., 6 February 1827. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.6.14)
Reference Number 4563
Additional Names Hood & McCullock; Royal College of Surgeons of England; LAWRENCE, Sir William (1783--1867)
Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man. Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons by W. Lawrence, F.R.S. ... With twelve engravings.
London (Place), printed for J. Callow, medical bookseller,, 1819.
xxiii, [1], 579, [1] p., [12] pl. (7 fold.) ; 21.1 cm. (8º)
Includes a final page of publisher's advertisements. Lawrence's provocative political opinions on the superior facilities enjoyed by French science and on the scientific enquiry into the origins of man led to widespread condemnation, and the author was eventually obliged to withdraw the present first edition of his Lectures from sale.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on third free-endpaper - Soane Esq. / Lincoln's Inn Fields; / with the respectful compliments / of the Author.
Binding 19th calf, thin-thick-thin gilt-ruled borders with small rose cornerpieces, thin-thick-thin gilt-ruled spine, red leather spine-labels, marbled edges to match the endpapers. Bound by Hood & McCullock for 5s., 6 February 1827. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.6.14)
Reference Number 4563
Additional Names Hood & McCullock; Royal College of Surgeons of England; LAWRENCE, Sir William (1783--1867)