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(ASSOCIATION COPY) Brief Expositions of Rational Medicine; To Which Is Prefixed The Paradise of Doctors, A Fable
by Jacob Bigelow, M. D. (1787-1879)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1858. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"Dr. Coolidge with Dr. Bigelows regards-". 75 pages, original brown cloth boards with embossed borders, lettered in gilt front cover, Very Good, stains both covers, light wear at spine ends. Bookplate of Edward Delos Churchill front paste down.With excellent medical provenance, from the collection of Edward Delos Churchill, (1895-1972), a pioneering American thoracic surgeon best remembered for describing the Churchill-Cope reflex. ASSOCIATION COPY, both Jacob Bigelow and Dr. Algernon Coolidge (1830-1912) were Harvard graduates, Boston doctors and fellow members of the prestigious Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Other members during this time were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Elliot Ware, Henry Jacob Bigelow, and J.B.S. Jackson. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Association Copy.
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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008493
- Title
- (ASSOCIATION COPY) Brief Expositions of Rational Medicine; To Which Is Prefixed The Paradise of Doctors, A Fable
- Author
- Jacob Bigelow, M. D. (1787-1879)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Phillips, Sampson & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1858
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine;
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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