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Narrative of a journey to Morocco,

in 1863 and 1864.

Stock Code 102731

London, T. Cautley Newby, 1866

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Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), an eminent physician was the first to identify the type of lymphoma now known as Hodgkins disease. He travelled to Morocco in 1864, accompanying Sir Moses Montefiore, who was on a mission to the Sultan of Morocco to seek an improvement in the treatment of the Jewish population. Hodgkin died in Jaffa in 1866 after a severe attack of dysentery and this volume was published posthumously by his friends as a memorial. The illustration of the obelisk is of the one erected by Sir Moses Montefiore as a memorial to him.

First edition. 28 x 19 cm., xii, 183 pp., 24 pages ads at end, 2 portraits, 4 tinted lithographs, one monochrome illustration of an obelisk, original green cloth gilt, upper cover decorated in gilt and blind to a Moorish design, all edges gilt, bevelled edges, corners bumped else a fine clean copy.

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Narrative of a journey to Morocco,

HODGKIN, Thomas, M.D.

Stock code: 102731

$1,406.00

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