Dr. Holmes’s introductory lecture, delivered before the medical class of Harvard University, November 3, 1847

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

$2,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848. 8vo. 38 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, rebacked. An exquisite copy inscribed by Holmes to J.A. Lowell. Preserved in a cloth slip-case. Item #12240 First edition. Without the advertisements on back wrapper, as is often the case in presentation copies. C&T, p. 40; OCLC locates no copies.

• Binding: Wrappers

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