Frozen Sections of a Child, Thomas Dwight, M.D. First Edition.

Frozen Sections of a Child, Thomas Dwight, M.D. First edition, first printing of this "classical work of great importance in pediatrics, and the first American group of serial sections" (Choulant-Frank, p. 409). With 15 full-page drawings from nature by H.P. Quincy. New York:  William Wood & Co., 1881. Original cloth boards with gilt titles, pp. 66, 15 plates. A very good copy. Binding is sturdy, bumping to base of spine and corners, some fraying to boards with instances of discoloration, small puncture to spine. Internally clean with no markings.