A TREATISE ON MEDIATE AUSCULTATION, AND ON DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND HEART
London: H. Balliere, 1846. Octavo, [2], xxxi, [1], 862 pages + frontispiece and 6 plates, 2 hand colored. Very good-; Rebound in modern red cloth with black leather label to spine; Original purple cloth preserved on boards; Spine lightly sunned and rubbed; Bookplate of a previous owner, Henry Barton Jacobs, to front pastedown; TLS signed by William Hale-White (as W. Hale-White) and addressed to Henry Barton Jacobs affixed to second front free endpaper; Text block age-toned and foxed with damp staining to frontispiece; MF consignment.
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The TLS signed by Hale-White addressed the identity of the translator of a work both men were familiar with. Hale-White had identified the translation in question as the work of "Herbert," but following a letter from Jacobs has come to the conclusion that the identification was incorrect.