Description: Elements of Medical Jurisprudence by Theodoric Romeyn Beck, in Two Volumes [bound together], Printed and Published by Webster’s and Skinners, Albany, 1823, 418 pp, 471 pp, full original leather, 9 x 5.75”, thick 8vo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with scuffing along edges and corners. Spine label is chipped at lower corner. Joints abraded with desiccation, spine ends are chipped with minor loss. Surface of leather abraded overall with slight scratching. New end papers fresh and clean. Old hand notation on title page. Light toning throughout with scattered instances of foxing. Dampness staining slightly permeating the margins. Some leaves dog eared at corners, others are slightly chipped. Binding remains tight and intact. Free of known marginalia. Please see photos. The first important American text on forensic medicine, with a section on mental alienation. Beck’s book was published in four British editions and translated into German and Swedish. Beck later became president of the Utica asylum and edited the American Journal of Insanity. His text instantly became the standard work in English, supplanting Smith’s 1821 Principles of Forensic Medicine and Fonblanque’s 1823 Medical Jurisprudence. RAREA1823LRTG
Price: 1000 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Author: Theodric Romeyn Beck
Publisher: Websters and Skinners
Topic: Medicine
Subject: Science & Medicine
Original/Facsimile: Original
