Author: John Morse

Publisher: The Heirs of Hippocrates Library, Medical Biographies of Major Figures in Medicine and History, Gryphon Editions (c. 1994 ) Facsimile of 1986 edition
Retail value: $158.00; Publisher’s Price: $118.00

Format/Condition: New, unread, quarter-bound leather volumes [leather spine; cloth boards] in fine condition.

Description:Oliver Wendell Holmes [1809–94], American author and physician, was the father of famed Associate Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. These two illustrated volumes that amply show why Dr. Holmes was both admired and beloved. Holmes, the very embodiment of the medical Renaissance man, was also a man of letters, counting among his friends Agassiz, Motley, Longfellow, and Emerson. Morse’s vivid biography tells the fascinating story of Holmes’s “parallel careers” as an accomplished poet, widely published essayist, and respected medical educator.