BATEMAN, Thomas Delineations of cutaneous diseases, exhibiting the characteristic appearances of the principal genera and species comprised in the classification of the late Dr. Willan: and completing the series of engravings begun by that author. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828
Second edition, 4to., [ii], viii, [144] pp.
With 72 full-page hand-coloured plates, each with facing page of explanation (plates IX and XI misbound). Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, backstrip and covers somewhat worn; plates clean, occasional foxing in text (especially the blank endpapers). From the libraries of John Churchill and E. J. Angle, with their bookplates., Second edition. This classic of modern dermatology, in its second printing, is notable for the fine coloured plates. Bateman (1778-1821), a pupil of Willan's, continued his teacher's classifications of skin disease by refurbishing his existing plates and contributing a set of original plates of his own drawings depicting, among other items, a never-before illustrated genera of dermatoses. The atlas was conceived as a companion piece to Bateman's Practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases. Bateman wrote on medical subjects other than dermatology, but after Willan's death in 1812, his practice expanded and he became the dermatologist in London. Garrison & Morton, 3988.
$US2000
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