[OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.]


The Old Humanities and the New Science. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. 8vo. Photolithographic frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth gilt, printed dust jacket. Corners worn, chipping to corners of jacket, light browning.Provenance: Charlotte Osler Gwyn (inscription).FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF OSLER'S FINAL PUBLIC ADDRESS, INSCRIBED TO HIS SISTER by Dr. Harvey Cushing, who wrote the introduction: "To Mrs. Gwyn, With the regards of Harvey Cushing." Beneath the photograph on the frontispiece, Cushing has added the hand-written caption "From a Kodak taken in the Bodleian in 1909." In Cushing's own biography of Osler, the same photograph appears with a caption dating it to June 1912, but the accompanying text explains the 1909 visit to the Bodleian, where Osler and Cushing examined the 1538 edition of Vesalius's Epitome that appears in the photograph. Cushing Bibliography 177; Golden & Roland 1065.