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Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children
by Dewees, William P
- Used
- fair
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea - Chesnut Street, 1832. Fourth Edition. Full Leather. Fair. 22.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xiv 15-548pp. Glossary, index. Bound in full brown contemporary leather, black spine label. Fourth Edition, with corrections, of this work originally done in 1825. Various owner's names and an embossed stamp on title page. Piece out of the front free endpaper. Fairly extensive staining and foxing; though the text is still readable. Front gutter cracked. Text block feels tight and solid. A working copy. Early pediatrics book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69156
- Title
- Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children
- Author
- Dewees, William P
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Publisher
- Carey & Lea - Chesnut Street
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1832
- Keywords
- Pediatrics
- Bookseller catalogs
- medicine;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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