Item 26486"A Letter from Mr. John Freke, F. R. S. Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital to the Royal Society, Relating a Case of Extraordinary Exostoses on the Back of a Boy;" "A Description of Needles Made for Operations on the Eyes, and of Some Instruments for the Ears, by the Same." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. XLI For the Years 1739, 1740, 1741; pp. 269-370, 847-851.)
London: Royal Society of London, 1744. First Edition. Quarter Leather. [4], [6], 873, [21] pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate.....