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Engravings of the Brain and Nerves
by Sir Charles Bell
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Birmingham, Alabama: Gryphon Editions Ltd, 1982. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. Special facsmilie edition privately printed for members of the Classics of Medicine Library, original First Edition in 1802. Book is Fine, full blue leather, all edges are gilded (gold),covers are brass die stamped 22 karat gold. 5 raised bands on spine, Book is in Never read condition, As New, Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown and Classics of Medicine Library booplate #2993 on first free page, beautiful marbeled endpapers and silk book mark. 330 pages, Book is 11.25 inches in height, many colored anatomy plates some fold out plates. A Mint and most presentable Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001302
- Title
- Engravings of the Brain and Nerves
- Author
- Sir Charles Bell
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gryphon Editions Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- The Classics of Medicine Library
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
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About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- New
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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