SILLIMAN

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Autograph Letter Signed from Joshua Leavitt, editor of the American Anti-Slavery Society's newspaper the Emancipator, to Professor Benjamin Silliman, asking whether Edward Hitchcock, President of Amherst College, had assisted him 53 years before.

Author: 
Joshua Leavitt (1794-1873), clergyman and editor of the Emancipator, the official organ of the American Anti-Slavery Society [Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), chemist; Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)]
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New York; 1 March 1864.
£130.00

2pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper.

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The evolution of modern medicine | A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.

Author: 
Sir William Osler
Publication details: 
New Haven: Yale University Press. 1921.
£56.00

For Osler (1849-1919) see the Dictionary of National Biography. 4to. Pages: xv + 243. 107 figures in text. Good, tight copy, with minor spotting. In worn and stained green cloth binding, with lettering entirely faded from spine. Attractive bookplate of Irving S. Cutter, medical author, and a signed inscription from him presenting the book to F. Wood Jones. From the library of the librarian of the Medical Society of London, Nehemiah Asherson.

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