The Reluctant Surgeon - A Biography of John Hunter
by Kobler, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Hollis Center, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1960 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Biography of this noted eighteenth century surgeon, who was "the first to teach the science of surgery as Pare two hundred years before had advanced the art". This copy is noted to have been purchased from the estate of the medical author George W. Corner, and has a round robin list of the book's circulation among a select group of people, including E. Corner, the wife of George W. Corner. Few pencil marks in the text..
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Details
- Bookseller
- UHR Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022188
- Title
- The Reluctant Surgeon - A Biography of John Hunter
- Author
- Kobler, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- John Hunter, Surgeon Biography, Surgical biography, Medical Biography, Hunterian Manuscripts Diaries letters, History of Medicine, History of Surgery, George Corner MD
- Bookseller catalogs
- Surgery; Medical Biography;
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Hollis Center, Maine
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- First Edition
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