Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical [Gray's Anatomy].

GRAY, Henry.

Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical [Gray's Anatomy].

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea , 1859.

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"Surgical anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science": Rare First Edition of Gray's Anatomy

First edition of this influential work on Anatomy, often considered "the doctor's bible." Royal octavo, bound in full contemporary sheep with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated with 363 wood-engravings after the drawings by H. V. Carter. In very good condition with light rubbing and shelf wear. Owner inscriptions to the half-title page and a bookplate to the front pastedown from the "Department of North Carolina, Medical Purveyor's Office." Rare and desirable in contemporary sheep.

Gray's Anatomy is an English-language textbook of human anatomy originally written by Henry Gray and illustrated by Henry Vandyke Carter. Earlier editions were called Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical and Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied, but the book's name is commonly shortened to, and later editions are titled, Gray's Anatomy. The book is widely regarded as an extremely influential work on the subject, and has continued to be revised and republished from its initial publication in 1858 to the present day.