MEDICAL CERTIFICATES, 19th Century. Eleven engraved certificates issued to Thomas Steele Willisher in the course of his training as a physician, 1821-22, including two diplomas with an illustration after Benjamin West by M. Liart, signed and inscribed by JOSHUA BROOKES (1761-1833), anatomist ('Willisher... have carefully dissected the greater part of the Human Body'), certificate signed and inscribed by GEORGE PEARSON (1751-1828), physician to the Duke of York, and certificate issued from St Bartholomews Hospital with a view of the hospital by W. H. Toms. Included in an album containing heraldic and genealogical material compiled by GEORGE HARRISON ROGERS HARRISON, WINDSOR HERALD (1849-80), relating to the Harrisons of Middlesex and Willishers of Essex, and Page (Glamorgan), Isaacs, Curwood, Wilson and Bloxsome (New South Wales) families, 17th-19th centuries, including a grant of arms signed by GEORGE IV and Particulars and conditions of sale of a Freehold Estate... in the Hamlet of Pinner, auction catalogue, Mess. Christie and Andsell, 21 July 1779, 3 pages, folio, signed by the purchaser, Francis Legg (1719-83) Governor of Nova Scotia, (some material loosely inserted), approximately 150 items, folio (325 x 205mm), blue cloth (worn). Provenance: presented to Robert M Isaacs [Solicitor General of Australia] by George Harrison, Bluemantle.
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MEDICAL CERTIFICATES, 19th Century. Eleven engraved certificates issued to Thomas Steele Willisher in the course of his training as a physician, 1821-22, including two diplomas with an illustration after Benjamin West by M. Liart, signed and inscribed by JOSHUA BROOKES (1761-1833), anatomist ('Willisher... have carefully dissected the greater part of the Human Body'), certificate signed and inscribed by GEORGE PEARSON (1751-1828), physician to the Duke of York, and certificate issued from St Bartholomews Hospital with a view of the hospital by W. H. Toms. Included in an album containing heraldic and genealogical material compiled by GEORGE HARRISON ROGERS HARRISON, WINDSOR HERALD (1849-80), relating to the Harrisons of Middlesex and Willishers of Essex, and Page (Glamorgan), Isaacs, Curwood, Wilson and Bloxsome (New South Wales) families, 17th-19th centuries, including a grant of arms signed by GEORGE IV and Particulars and conditions of sale of a Freehold Estate... in the Hamlet of Pinner, auction catalogue, Mess. Christie and Andsell, 21 July 1779, 3 pages, folio, signed by the purchaser, Francis Legg (1719-83) Governor of Nova Scotia, (some material loosely inserted), approximately 150 items, folio (325 x 205mm), blue cloth (worn). Provenance: presented to Robert M Isaacs [Solicitor General of Australia] by George Harrison, Bluemantle.

Closed29 September 2011

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MEDICAL CERTIFICATES, 19th Century. Eleven engraved certificates issued to Thomas Steele Willisher in the course of his training as a physician, 1821-22, including two diplomas with an illustration after Benjamin West by M. Liart, signed and inscribed by JOSHUA BROOKES (1761-1833), anatomist ('Willisher... have carefully dissected the greater part of the Human Body'), certificate signed and inscribed by GEORGE PEARSON (1751-1828), physician to the Duke of York, and certificate issued from St Bartholomews Hospital with a view of the hospital by W. H. Toms. Included in an album containing heraldic and genealogical material compiled by GEORGE HARRISON ROGERS HARRISON, WINDSOR HERALD (1849-80), relating to the Harrisons of Middlesex and Willishers of Essex, and Page (Glamorgan), Isaacs, Curwood, Wilson and Bloxsome (New South Wales) families, 17th-19th centuries, including a grant of arms signed by GEORGE IV and Particulars and conditions of sale of a Freehold Estate... in the Hamlet of Pinner, auction catalogue, Mess. Christie and Andsell, 21 July 1779, 3 pages, folio, signed by the purchaser, Francis Legg (1719-83) Governor of Nova Scotia, (some material loosely inserted), approximately 150 items, folio (325 x 205mm), blue cloth (worn). Provenance: presented to Robert M Isaacs [Solicitor General of Australia] by George Harrison, Bluemantle.