Lot 310: FOX, GEORGE HENRY. 1846-1937. Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases. New York: E.B. Treat, 1800.

FOX, GEORGE HENRY. 1846-1937.
Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases. New York: E.B. Treat, 1800. 4to (300 x 236 mm). 48 hand-colored collotype plates. Three quarter morocco. Wear to morocco.Provenance: R.W. Ramsey (ink inscription and stamp).FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of this important atlas of skin diseases. Fox writes in his preface, "The study of Skin Diseases without cases or colored plates is like the study of osteology without bones, or the study of geography without maps. However comprehensive or practical a text-book may be, its verbal descriptions cannot compare in value with a sight of the things described, or, what is next best, its faithful representation." Known as the 'dean of dermatology,' Fox was one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association. The photographic plates in this volume and later ones were printed by Edward Bierstadt and hand-colored by Joseph Gaertner. Garrison-Morton 3996; Heirs of Hippocrates 2094.WITH: Reminiscences. New York: Medical Life Press, 1926. 8vo (206 x 135 mm). Publisher's red cloth. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY FOX to Henry E. Michelson.