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This was first published in 1849, but two years earlier he
had described and illustrated a regulating device that he had
devised for some early experiments (with Liston and other surgeons)
involving the use of ether in surgery. This appeared first in 1847
in the London Medical Gazette and was
re-issued twice in that same year, both as an offprint and separate
printed by John Churchill.
It was a copy of the Churchill edition, On the
Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether..., which should contain
one full-page and two smaller wood engravings, that made £2200 in a
June 4 sale held byMallams of Oxford. An 1858
[first?] edition of a comprehensive treatise on anaesthesiology
that Snow completed just a few days before his death and which was
edited for publication as On Chloroform and other
Anaesthetics, was lotted up with 11 other later works and
rather undervalued at £100-200, but brought £1900 all the same. A
related 18th century work, Edmund Goodwyn's The
Connexion of Life with Respiration of 1788, made
£500.
Literary entries in this 525-lot sale included an 1889 first
of W.B. Yeats' The Wanderings of Oisin and other
Poems that sold at £760 and a 1902 Als from Yeats,
referring to his play Where There is Nothing,
which reached £750. What appears to have been a job lot of books by
or about Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo - the only named Rolfe being
an 1898 first of How I was Buried Alive (a
story printed in Wide World Magazine) - sold for
a much, much higher than expected £1650, as did a "quantity of
leaflets and pamphlets, some signed", at £1300.