THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine
by Osler, William
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1892. Hardcover; large 8vo; 1079 pages. FIRST EDITION, in the second state (according to R.J. Wolfe). Half bount in dark leather with pebbled side-cloth. The leather is quite scuffed. Rubbed and drying around edges, flaking in some cases. Exposed boards at corners, and at cloth edges, which is also rubbed and fraying. Heavy shelfwear. Red speckled edges, yellowed. Cracked hinges. The pages are yellowed but still quite bright and clean. Several pages dog-eared. Missing some ads at rear, but included ads are dated September 1892. P/--. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 223295
- Title
- THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine
- Author
- Osler, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1892
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- Edges
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- Cracked
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- Pebbled
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- Second State
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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