viii, 470 + 2 ad pp. (8vo) 21x12 cm (8¼x5"), period calf, gilt-ruled spine, maroon morocco spine labels lettered in gilt.

Extremely rare volume of Duncan's Annals of Medicine for the Year 1797. No previous auction records are found for the complete volume, and no holdings are listed at OCLC. This copy with the bookplate of The Waring Historical Library of the Medical University of South Carolina. 

Andrew Duncan, the elder was a Scottish physician and professor at Edinburgh University. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1773, he commenced the publication of Medical and Philosophical Commentaries, a quarterly journal of medicine, at first issued in the name of "a society in Edinburgh", Duncan being named as secretary. It was the first medical review journal published regularly in Great Britain. The seventh volume was entitled Medical Commentaries for the year 1780, collected and published by Andrew Duncan, and reached a third edition. The series extended ultimately to twenty volumes, the last issue being in 1795, after which the publication was entitled Annals of Medicine, of which eight volumes were issued.