
MAN’S REDEMPTION OF MAN
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Paul B. Hoeber Inc., Medical Book Department of Harper & Brothers, New York, 1937. Small hard cover, 35 pages. Very good; marbled paper over boards with paste-on labels on front and spine. A bit of corner, edge and spine end wear, some rubs along edges, small tears to paper; binding sound. No jacket. Prior owner’s book plate affixed to front paste-down; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; some age spotting/toning on front and rear end papers and paste-downs; engraving of Osler tipped in. Last page states: Hand-set in Goudy Mediaeval type by Arthur and Edna Rushmore at The Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey, for Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. in New York City. ‘”Man’s Redemption of Man” was the presidential address made by Osler at the Annual Meeting and Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, which was held at Edinburgh in July, 1910. The address was delivered in McEwan Hall on the afternoon of Sunday, July the third, in the course of a memorial service for Robert Koch, the discoverer of the tubercle bacillus, who had died a few months before.’ (from Foreword)