OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


The Principles and Practice of Medicine. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Wear to covers, front and rear endpapers chipped at margins. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, his sale, Christie's New York, 29 October, 1998, lot 1227). FIRST EDTION, SECOND ISSUE, ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY OSLER: "Miss Humpton, with the kind regards & best thanks of the the author." Miss B.O. Humpton prepared the index for this work, but more importantly she was Osler's stenographer at Johns Hopkins, and he dictated the text of the work for her to transcribe. Osler kept in touch with her until the end of his life: one of his last letters was to her, in which he refers to this work as "your book." Osler 1, p 349; Golden & Roland 1378.