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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1992. Hardcover. 237 pp. 275x215 mm (11"x8½") approx. Very many period B&W photos, plus line drawings, cartoons and ephemera. Condition: fine in a fine dust jacket. Please see the photos of the actual item to assess its condition. Important note for customers in the USA: Due to the imposition of import duty on low value goods by your current administration, it is now impossible to provide a universal default shipping cost. Please ask for a shipping quote before ordering.…

Disbound. ESTC T142939. An adaptation made by John Philip Kemble. A rival edition attributes the work to Kemble.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. xvi, 246 pp. Recent 1/4-leather and marbled boards, with new leather spine label. Text browned. Very Good. An incomplete version was printed for private distribution in 1794. The book offered here is the first published edition. Garrison-Morton 1764 (citing the 1803 edition): "The British and American medical professions have adopted much of 'Percival' in their ethical codes." "When the American Medical Association adopted its first code of ethics in 1847, many of its precepts were drawn from this book. Even today, after undergoing several revisions, the American Medical Association guidelines of ethical conduct for the physician are still based on those formulated by Percival. . . . The first half of the volume is devoted to the ethical principles which physicians and surgeons should exercise in their dealings with hospitals, with one another, with apothecaries, and in those cases where familiarity with the law is required. The second half of the book consists of an appendix containing a sermon on hospital duties addressed to the Liverpool Infirmary in 1791 by Percival's eldest son as well as a series of notes by Thomas Percival that enlarge upon the textual footnotes" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1037). Bibliotheca Osleriana 3645.…

Presumed First Edition. Octavo, 15 pages; VG-; Side-sewn pamphlet; Light foxing and age-toning overall, with some light tearing/wear to untrimmed edges; Early ink emendations to front page, indicating historians quoted in pamphlet (Hollingshed, Froissart, Grafton, etc). 1353747. Special Collections.