A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO OPERATIONS ON THE TEETH. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF DENTAL SURGERY. JAMES SNELL, Dentist, CAREY AND LEA, PHILADELPHIA, 1832.
 
"The chief excellence of the present work is the minuteness with which it describes the whole art and its appurtenances. The chair used by the author, and said by him to be superior to any other he has known, is fully described, and explained, and represented in a plate."
 
The chapters include: The Operating Chair, Extraction of the Teeth, Excision of the Teeth, The Dental Mirror, Stopping, Scaling the Teeth and Ligatures for fastening Loose Teeth. Plates depict a dentist's chair and numerous dental tools.
 
Plain boards with a cloth spine. The right outer joint is slightly split. Some rubbing to the cover with heavy soil stains to the cover fore-edge bumped corner tips and edge chips. Hardcover book with 207 pages plus illustrated plates and ads. Uneven page edges. Illustrated. Rare!