Auction Catalogue

13 March 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. Numismatic Books

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1320

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13 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£20

Peck 1935 Books, Peck, C.W., Pharmacopoeia of St Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1935, 188pp. Original blue cloth with titles in gilt, spine partly torn; an interleaved copy of this scarce tract, signed Joan F.N. Blake on first free endpaper (£20-30)

C Wilson Peck was pharmaceutist to the hospital and lecturer on pharmacy to St Thomas’s Medical School; as a 15-year old boy the cataloguer well remembers visiting Peck at his Wimbledon home and listening to him describe his pharmaceutical career