1925 Rare Medical biography set in a beautiful binding - The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing.

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Author: CUSHING, Harvey.
Title: The Life of Sir William Osler.
Publisher: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1925. First thus. Complete set of 2 volumes.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9 " X 6 ".
Pages: xiii-685-728 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine binding, finely bound in half red morocco leather, the spine hand-tooled in gilt, upper edge gilt (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, corners slightly worn - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A very beautiful binding!
Content: Very good, near fine, content (bright, tight and clean, nice bookplate presenting the set to Dr. Joseph Van der Meulen by the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1954 on first endpaper - as shown, small tear to the outer margin of the last few pages of the first volume - as shown). 
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated with portraits, photographs, and facsimiles.

Estimate: (USD 500 - USD 750)

The book set: Attractive edition and scarce in a beautiful morocco binding of The Life of Sir William Osler. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS FRCP (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope". Osler was a person of many interests, who in addition to being a physician, was a bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker. Outside of medicine, he was passionate about medical libraries and medical history and among his achievements were the founding of the History of Medicine Society (formally "section"), at the Royal Society of Medicine, London.[4] In the field of librarianship he was instrumental in founding the Medical Library Association of Great Britain and Ireland, the (North American) Association of Medical Librarians (now known as the Medical Library Association) with three others, including Margaret Charlton, the medical librarian of his alma mater, McGill University. He left his large history of medicine library to McGill, where it continues to exist as the Osler Library.

The author: Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He wrote a biography of William Osler in 1925.