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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This beautifully illustrated guidebook to the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs in Virginia provides visitors with a comprehensive look at the resort and its many amenities. Featuring numerous photographs and illustrations, as well as information on the local area and points of interest, this book is a must-read for anyone planning a visit to this lovely resort.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This beautifully illustrated guidebook to the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs in Virginia provides visitors with a comprehensive look at the resort and its many amenities. Featuring numerous photographs and illustrations, as well as information on the local area and points of interest, this book is a must-read for anyone planning a visit to this lovely resort.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Size: 8 3/4" x 5 3/4". 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Two volumes, full leather over boards, gilt-stamped black spine labels, Vol. I: 531 pages, Vol. II: 556 pages, two plates in the second volume. Both volumes have light wear at extremities and scattered foxing/minor staining and toning on interior pages. Generally in very good condition and highly readable. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 6 oz. Category: Medicine & Health; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016209. Second American from the Third London Edition, with Numerous Additions and Amendments.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 183-228. Features: "Literary Gents"; On Collecting Book Illustrations; A Commentary on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; Contemporary Foreign Writers - XVIII; Famous Women Writers; Modern Composers - Arthur Bliss; Early Seventeenth Century Gardening Books; The Bolshevist Theory; The Comic Tragedians; The Cockpit of Europe; Greatness and Respectability; The Past in the Present; Two Essayists; Writers of the Sixties; Novels of Varying Flavours; The Collector - Early Translations from the Russian; New Comers to Fiction; Writing for Children; "Bookman" Competitions and Crossword. Average wear. Binding intact. Faint ink stamp to front cover. A sound vintage copy. …

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Physician George Gregory's detailed two volume study of medical ailments, diseases, cures and treatments. English physician George Gregory's extensive two volume study of nineteenth century medicine and ailments. With volume I being the third US edition of 1831, and volume II being the first US edition of 1826. Collated, and illustrated with two plates to volume II, one of which is hand coloured.With volume I covering 'Acute Disease' and volume II 'Chronic Disease', a wealth of medical conditions are studied and examined within this lengthy work, with sections dedicated to fevers, inflammatory diseases and haemorrhages, alongside discussions of chronic diseases of the thorax, chylopoetic viscera and urinary systems, and 'constitutional diseases'.With a former owner's inscription to the head of each title page, and the library stamp of the 'Long Island Historical Society' to each title page, and no further library markings.These editions are updated to be relevant to American physicians by Nathaniel Potter and S. Colhoun.A fascinating and richly informative insight into prevailing medical attitudes to a wealth of diseases in the early nineteenth century. Rebacked, in quarter calf bindings with paper covered boards, and endpapers renewed. Slight fading to back strip of volume I, with minor rubbing to back strips. Internally, firmly bound. Former owner's inscription to head of title pages, with library stamp to title pages also. With instances of spotting throughout, and the odd patch of foxing to the rear of volume II. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…