Bickerton thomas h (4 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: near fine. Illustrated. 67 pages. 12mo, original green printed paper wrappers. Liverpool, 1910. Near fine. Reprinted from the Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal.

Zustand: Good. Octavo, 20 pages; x-library in a pamphlet binder. Very Scarce. Bickerton was an Oculist at the Liverpool Royal Academy, house surgeon of the Royal Infirmary, and an ophthalmic surgeon. "When the facts of the case have been fully and clearly stated, as they will be stated by Dr. Farquharson, it will be surprising if an intelligent public do not command that attention so urgently needed, and compel the Department, which has the proud privilege of providing for the safety of the sea travelling community of the best maritime country in the world, to do, what should have been done many years ago, its duty." . "When will the Board of Trade understand that to ask a candidate to give the name of a colour is a test not of the colour sense but of education in the names of colours, and that to rely explicitly on the correct NAMING of colours opens the road for an utterly wrong conclusion?" "It was largely owing to his advocacy that the Board of Trade revised its rules in regard to tests of sailors' eyesight; he was too a pioneer in advocating the irrigation treatment of ophthalmia neonatorum." - Royal College of Surgeons of England. …

Original Green Cloth. Zustand: Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No d/w. 1st Edition. Turquoise Cloth Gilt Lettered. Boards. Folding linen backed map of Liverpool in 1765, half title, frontis of author, titlepage, (xx), 313 pp, 81 illustrations, which include 8 maps, plus another folding map of Liverpool i n1829 at rear. Book tight and clean; old inscription on fep neatly erased. Endpapers lightly toned. Boards bright but a little dusty; one corner knocked; 1cm split at bottom of spine. Very heavy book - will need extra postage at cost. See scans and email for more.…

pp. xx, 313, (i). Portrait frontispiece, 8 maps and plans (2 folding and linen-backed), 73 illustrations. Original cloth, uncut, corners a bit bumped, the cloth at the top of the front board slightly rippled and marked, one folding plan turned over at the fore-edge, overall a very good copy.