Item #119814 Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics or 'The Book of Medicines'. The Syriac Text, edited from a Rare Manuscript, with an English Translation. Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis BUDGE.

BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis

Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics or 'The Book of Medicines'. The Syriac Text, edited from a Rare Manuscript, with an English Translation

Oxford, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913 (first edition).

Octavo, two volumes, clxxviii, 616 (pagination in reverse); and xxvi, 804 pages with numerous lists and several diagrams.

Blind-ruled red cloth lettered in gilt on the spines; cloth unevenly sunned, and a little flecked and rubbed; bottom half of the spines a little marked; most corners a little bumped; top quarter of the half-title in Volume I torn away, with associated tanning of the top quarter of the title page; four related period newspaper cuttings mounted on the front endpaper of Volume II; overall, a very good set.

Provenance: Edward Angas Johnson (1873-1951), Adelaide medical practitioner prominent in public health circles (his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas), with his signature inkstamp on the front pastedown of the second volume (now partially obscured by one of the cuttings); later, Professor Andrew Arthur Abbie (1905-1976), anatomist and anthropologist, with his ink signature (dated 1960) in both volumes. [2 items].