DOCTOR OLAF VAN SCHULER'S BRAIN by Menger-Anderson, Kirsten.

DOCTOR OLAF VAN SCHULER'S BRAIN by Menger-Anderson, Kirsten. < >

DOCTOR OLAF VAN SCHULER'S BRAIN

Edition: First printing.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's unique and highly praised first book, a series of interconnected stories which cover almost five centuries of "peculiar" New York doctors from the 17th century when Dr. Olaf van Schuler emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1664 to today. Each generation applies what was then the current medical wisdom to things like explaining a death by spontaneous combustion, resuscitating a boy's corpse and using phrenology to predict human behavior. SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 290 pp. ISBN: 9781565125612.

Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

Book ID: 55327
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