8vo. Half-title. (Slight toning, some occasional spotting.) Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (spine lightly sunned, slight wear, upper hinge just starting). Provenance: Bernard S. Molloy, M.D. (signature, 1890); Dublin Medical Students Club, Limited (stamps to several pages).

FIRST EDITION of Stoke’s cardiological textbook, in Norman's second variant binding [no priority]. "Stokes’s textbook on cardiology contains his classic description of ‘Cheyne-Stokes respiration,’ a type of periodic breathing described by John Cheyne in 1818, which Stokes was the first to associate with fatty degeneration of the heart. The work also includes the first description of paroxysmal tachycardia, and is remarkable for its accurate depictions of pericarditis, valvular disease, and the weakening of the heart in typhus fever" (Norman 2024). Garrison & Morton 2760.