History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present. Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance, with a History of Eunuchism, Hermaphrodism, Etc., and of the Different Operations Practiced Upon the Prepuce
Philadelphia and London: The F.A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1891. Octavo, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 346 pp plus ads, frontispiece illustration of a "Hebraic Circumcision." A history of circumcision by Peter Charles Remondino, an Italian-American physician who was an advocate of circumsicion as well as the first president of the San Diego Board of Health, and co-founder of San Diego's first private hospital. A very good copy, spine a tad faded, binding cracked before title page, bookplate to front pastedown, inscriptions to front fly and upper margin of title page. Item #15887
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