Lectures of Alexander Monro, Primus

The volume is in the autograph of Cuming throughout.

18th Century

141 folios 4to. 20 × 15 cm. Original boards, rebacked. Bookplates of William Cuming and of John Coakley Lettsom.

William Cuming, M.D., F.S.A., was born in 1714, received his medical education in Edinburgh, and afterwards settled in Dorchester. He died in 1788.

On flyleaf: "Presented to Dr. J. Coakley Lettsom by his respectful Friend J. W. Cuming."

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).