Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science Collected, Arranged and Annotated by Sir William Osler and Bequeathed to McGill University

Description:

First edition. Sir William Osler (1848-1919), born in Canada, became one of the greatest physicians of his day. He was one of the 'Big Four' founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1905, he became Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was also a bibliophile with an outstanding library of some 7,000 volumes that reflected his literary and antiquarian interests as well as his study of the history of medicine. Upon his death, he bequeathed his library to McGill University, Montreal, where it formed the nucleus of the renowned Osler Library. This catalogue, published posthumously, was compiled according to Osler’s own detailed plans and includes many of his bibliographic annotations. Edited by W.W. Francis (Librarian of the Osler Library), R.H. Hill (Bodleian Library), and Archibald Malloch (Librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine), it remains an important reference for medical historians.

Condition

4to, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine. Withdrawn from an institutional library with small neat ink stamps to verso of title and final page only. Good. Interesting short reprint 'Osler at Oxford' by Charles Sherrington (British Medical Journal, 1949, Vol. II, p. 43), tipped in at front.