Eliakim Carmoly. History of the Jewish Physicians. Translated from the French and with notes by John R.W. Dunbar.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $300

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author

(MEDICINE).

printer

John Murphy

Place

Baltimore

Publication

(1845)

Description

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Engraved portrait Dr. Samuel Solomon tipped onto opening blank.

references

Singerman 887; Rosenbach 558.

summary

Covered here are the Jewish medical practitioners of antiquity, as recorded in the Bible and Talmud, and on through until the Middle Ages. See H. Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine, p. 116.

pp. 94. Ex-library, worn. Contemporary roan, needs rebinding. 8vo.

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