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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
by Porter., Roy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0002151731
- ISBN 13
- 9780002151733
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About This Item
SOFTBACK ?HEAVY VOLUME,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Harper Collins ~ London.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a surgeon at work. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light creases & dish to faded spine, none to hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning to contents, some darkening to top & fore edge, no other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Three x 8pp blocks of b/w photos. B/w line drawn plate to frontis.* Pages: 718 pp. text. cxiv pp. reading lists, index and blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present. A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine. One volume contains details of the development of medical knowledge and practice not only in Europe but around the world.* This is a NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with minimal age & shelf wear.*
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- 9490
- Title
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
- Author
- Porter., Roy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0002151731
- ISBN 13
- 9780002151733
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 832
- Date Published
- 1997-11-17
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