12mo. 106 leaves, 2 folded engraved plates; the colophon reads
De l’Imprimerie de Clousier, rue de Sorbonne, 1782.
Quérard IV, page 419.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, vii, 768.
This is the only title entered in
Chap. 9. Surgery in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue. The price is given,
2-6.
The first edition of this work was published in 1781. The author’s address as given in the imprint, was
rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, Maison de M. Bourdet, Chirurgien-Dentiste du Roi. According to his statement on the verso of the title leaf,
L’Auteur se transportera chez les Personnes qui le seront avertir, tous les jours, excepté les Dimanches, qu’il est à la Cour
. . .
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Water’s abridgment of Benjamin Bell’s Surgery.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 37. no. 1, as above.
BELL,
Benjamin.
A System of Surgery. Extracted from the works of Benjamin Bell, of Edinburgh: by Nicholas B. Waters, M.D. Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia . . . Illustrated with notes and copperplates.
Philadelphia: Printed by
T. Dobson,
1791.
RD30 .B35
First Waters Edition. 8vo. in fours. 304 leaves, 12 plates by J. Trenchard.
Evans 23170.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, i, 851.
Benjamin Bell, 1749-1806, Scottish surgeon. His
System of Surgery was first printed in Edinburgh in 6 volumes 8vo., 1782-1787.
Nicholas Baker Waters, 1764-1796, a native of Maryland, was the son-in-law of David Rittenhouse, and practised medicine in Philadelphia.
The illustrative notes are by John Jones, 1729-1791, the friend of Washington and Franklin and the author of the first surgical text-book printed in the American
colonies.
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Theorie et pratique de l’art du Dentiste. par Laforgue.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 37. no. 5, as above.
LAFORGUE,
Louis.
Théorie et Pratique de l’Art du Dentiste. Avec 20 planches représentant des instruments, dents, dentiers et obturateurs.
Deuxième édition revue . . . et considérablement augmentée par L. Laforgue . . .
Paris: Chez l’Auteur,
1810.
2 vol. 8vo., plates, portrait.
Quérard IV, page 420.
Crowley, 831, 864.
Weinberger II, page 952.
Louis Laforgue, French dentist, was received at the Collège de Chirurgie at Paris, and was dentist to the poor in the departement de la
Seine.
The first edition was printed in 1802 with a different title.
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J. Bell’s principles of Surgery abridged by Smith.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 37. no. 2, Smith’s abridgment of John Bell’s principles of Surgery, 8vo.
BELL,
John.
The Principles of Surgery. By John Bell, Surgeon. Abridged by J. Augustine Smith, of The Royal College of Surgeons, London, and Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in The College of Physicians and Surgeons
in the University of the State of New-York. With Notes and Additions.
New-York: Printed and Sold by
Collins and Perkins,
1810.
RD31 .B43
