Mystery, Magic and Medicine: The Rise of Medicine From Superstition to Science
by Haggard, Howard W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 192pp. Original printed dust-jacket over burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable work in which the author has told with vividness of the fight against disease through the ages. Spine slightly sunned and damp-stained on back cover. Price clipped. DJ in overall good-, binding in good+, interior in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32612
- Title
- Mystery, Magic and Medicine: The Rise of Medicine From Superstition to Science
- Author
- Haggard, Howard W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Medicine in antiquity, Diseases and remedies in antiquity, Physicians in the ancient world, First edition, Reference
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
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We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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