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THE EVOLUTION OF ANATOMY A Short History of Anatomical and Physiological Discovery to Harvey. Being the substance of the Fitzpatrcik Lectures delivered at The Royal College of Physicians of London in the years 1923 and 1924
by SINGER, Charles
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG for age/No Jacket
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co , 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG for age/No Jacket. Green cloth with gilt sp. lettering, clean and unworn but slight fading to spine region. Full opening double plates of Vesalius's Humani corporis fabrica t.p. on left and decorative t.p. f current work on right + printed t.p. + xii + 209 + (1, author's pub. list), 20 plates ex-pagination in main text + figs 100-117 from Vesalius as 'A Vesalian Atlas', 99 figs in main tex; clean and unmarked bar small brown splash mark top edge fr. end-paper which is also very fainlty tanned, main interest however is the engraved heraldic book-plate of Sir Cecil Wakeley Bt. 9ect) to front pastedown. Wakeley, 1872 - 1979 was a very eminent surgeon who served in the Royal Navy during the Great War, he was also, oddly, an ardent creationist. He was made a baronet in 1952, so this plate suggest he was not the book's first owner. 14,5 cm x 22 cm
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013810
- Title
- THE EVOLUTION OF ANATOMY A Short History of Anatomical and Physiological Discovery to Harvey. Being the substance of the Fitzpatrcik Lectures delivered at The Royal College of Physicians of London in the years 1923 and 1924
- Author
- SINGER, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG for age
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- history of medicine history of anatomy history of surgery Vesalius medieval medicine mediaeval medicine heraldic bookplate Sir Cecil Wakeley
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