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A TREATISE ON THE BLOOD, INFLAMMATION, AND GUN-SHOT WOUNDS; TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, BY HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, EVERARD HOME
by HUNTER, JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed By John Richardson, for George Nicol, 1894. Rebacked with original leather spine laid-down. The spine was chipped but most is retained. Black leather spine label. Covers and edges marbled. Hinges re-inforced probably at time of rebacking. Book-plate of Logan Clendening on front pastedown. Clendening was a distinguished teacher at the University of Kansas and a major collector of medical books. Old bookseller's description of the book dated 1950 affixed to the rear pastedown.This volume was bound without the frontispiece portrait which is supplied in facsimile. All eight engraved plates are found at the end of the book. Plates VII and VIII show some foxing at periphery, others are quite clean. A ninth plate is found at p.161. It contains two figures and is clean. Wide margins, only occasional minor foxing. 575pp. A well-preserved copy of this classic work. It appears that about 40% of the volumes sold in the past 35 years have lacked the portrait frontispiece. John Hunter (1728-1793) died after the book was finished but before it was published. He was a famed Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists of his day. The Hunterian Society in London was named in his honor. The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons preserves his extensive collection of anatomical specimens.. First Edition. 1/2 Calf Over Marbled Boards.. Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014458
- Title
- A TREATISE ON THE BLOOD, INFLAMMATION, AND GUN-SHOT WOUNDS; TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, BY HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, EVERARD HOME
- Author
- HUNTER, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed By John Richardson, for George Nicol
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Medicine, History of Medicine, Medical Classics, Logan Clendening
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Spine Label
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Marbled boards
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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