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Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Societatis Medicae Edinburgenae, Secondum Auctorum Nomina Dispositus
by Medical Society of Edinburgh
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About This Item
Edinburgi: Excudebant Jacobus Pillans & Fillii, 1804.
12mo. 175 x 100 mm., [7 x 4 inches]. 186 pp. Bound in 19th century ¾ black morocco, leather spine and corners, marbled paper boards; joint cracked but expertly repaired with tissue; text block brown with age but in good condition. A few pencil marks appear in the margins. Nineteenth- century ownership stamp of George R. Brush, M.D./US Navy of Sayville, N. Y. on title-page. With faults a good, sound copy.
This catalogue of approximately 2,500 titles, is organized alphabetically and is exclusively devoted to medicine and the related sciences. The collection is strong in 16th and 17th century titles and as one might expect a very good collection of 18th century books, especially titles printed at the end of the century. There are also a good number of dissertations and pamphlets included, which add to the comprehensive nature of this catalogue's holdings.
The first publication of the University of Edinburgh medical library appeared in 1773 and included over 4,000 titles. It was updated in 1798 with a new edition which doubled the listing of holdings to over 8,000 titles. In 1805 a 55-page addendum was published that included 750 title. The entire library was sold in at Sotheby's in 1969 and much of it was purchased by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This 1804 catalogue appears to an independent publication, complete in itself. It does not appear that this title is listed in the British Library Catalogue, OCLC or NUC. Not listed in the Grolier Club Library Catalogue It is also not in the University of Wisconsin on-line catalogue, but an 1812 edition with a similar title is listed.
Besterman II, p. 2521 for early editions of the catalogue.
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- Title
- Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Societatis Medicae Edinburgenae, Secondum Auctorum Nomina Dispositus
- Author
- Medical Society of Edinburgh
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- Excudebant Jacobus Pillans & Fillii
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgi
- Date Published
- 1804
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 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,...
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