ROBERT WOOFFENDALE. Practical Observations on the Human Teeth. London 1788 Octavo, contemporary quarter red morocco and boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, xixpp + (1) blank + 158pp, 1 engraved plate, engraved armorial book plate of Kinnaird, a fine copy. Very rare. NO COPY RECORDED IN ANY LIBRARY CATALOGUE. Garrison & Morton 3676.2. Not in Menzies Campbell or Crowley. Poletti p.206. Not in Weinberger. Stockton’s Dental Intelligencer 1848, 4, pp.129-135 Sketch of the Life of Robert Wooffindale by O H Wilcox. Not in BL or Wellcome. No copies in OCLC. Unrecorded second printing, first published in 1783. Wooffendale (1742-1828) was the first dentist to travel to and practice in New York and Philadelphia. Wooffendale practiced in America between 1766 and 1768 and Garrison & Morton states “he may have made the first set of artificial teeth constructed in the United States”.Wooffendale was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1742 and at twenty went to London to work with the apothecaries White & Gipps. There he met the dentist Thomas Berdmore and Wooffendale and became his pupil in 1765 for twelve months. In September 1766 he sailed from Falmouth to New York. Wilcox wrote “During his residence in New York and Philadelphia it does not appear that he met with much professional success, although, in each of those cities, he made favourable impressions on some few who had employed his services…In New York William Walton Esq employed him to construct a double set of artificial teeth, which was carved from the ivory of the hippopotamus…” The only other practicing dentist in America was apparently a Mr Greenwood “who was wholly unknown beyond Boston”. Wooffendale returned to England in 1768 with a young wife. He returned to Sheffield and in 1775 set up practice in Liverpool where he wrote his Practical Observations. On the death of Berdmore in 1789 he set up practice in London in Dover Street. In 1793 he returned to America with his wife and eight children and set up in practice in New York. £3000	Please select : JOHN BATE Gerard Blaes Bullion Report Ephraim Chambers Captain James Cook Charles Davenant Alexis de Tocqueville Nicholas Dubois de Chemant Francesco Feliciano William Hamilton Ebenezer Howard DAVID HUME Six 17th Century editions of the Koran Koran Koran Koran John Locke JOHN LOCKE JOHN LOCKE Thomas Masterson HENRI MATISSE JAMES AND JOHN STUART MILL Thomas Obicini LUCA PACIOLI John Parkinson JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI François PÉTIS DE LA CROIX William Petty Giovanni Sfortunati William Shaw Robert Simson Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith SIR JAMES STEUART Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich Stromer William Thom CUTHBERT TUNSTALL JOHN WHEELER Robert Wooffendale
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