Wistar's Anatomy (Pancoast), 8th ed, 1842

A System of Anatomy for the use of Students of Medicine. By Caspar Wistar, M. D., Late Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. With notes and additions, by William E. Horner, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. Eighth Edition. Entirely Remodeled, an illustrated by more than two hundred engravings. By J. Pancoast, M. D., Professor of General Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Lecturer on Clinical Surgery at the Philadelphia Hospital, Fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, Etc. Etc. In two volumes. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. 1842. 
 
Two volumes in original full brown leather with gold and title labels on spine. Boards of volume two having been reattached. Mild scuffs and stains of exteriors. Corners variably bumped and split. Mild shelf wear. 19th century owner’s name (Alfred P Munson MD??) on ffeps. Vol 1: 538 pages, one plate. Vol 2: 621 pages, a dozen plates (in colors; one folding plate in red; one missing approx top half). Wistar’s was the first American textbook on anatomy, and went through subsequent editorship under William Horner, and later Joseph Pancoast.