Davey herbert (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition copy. No dust jacket. Notations within and mild tan with some foxing to page edges. Good reading copy.…

Hardcover. xii, 287 p.; 22 cm. Table of statutes (chronological), p. [vii]-x; table of cases (alphabetical), p. [xi]-xii. VG maroon leathergrain cloth. Title-page browned from endpaper.

Hard Back. Boards good and with little shelf wear to them Some bumping to the spine Ffep loose from the spine Contents clean Overall good 287pp. book.

Third Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages; Physical desc. : pp. Xxxvi. 376. 8vo. Includes index. Subject: Poor laws - Great Britain. Domicile in public welfare - Great Britain 0 Kg.…

The subject of the letter is the surgeon Henry William Robert Davey (1798-1870), son of surgeon Henry Sallows Davey (1781-1855) of Beccles, who also studied under Sir Charles Bell at the Hunterian School of Medicine in Great Windmill Street, London. Printed in black on one side of a 21 x 16.5 cm piece of paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to edge on blank reverse. An attractive item, with an engraving of the front of the hospital at the head, beneath which, in an arrangement of types and point sizes: 'MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. | THIS IS TO CERTIFY, | THAT | [Mr. Henry W. R. Davey] | HAS DILIGENTLY ATTENDED | [One] | COURSES OF OUR LECTURES, | ON | The Practice of Physic. | DATE. | [7 May 1820] | SIGNED | [P: Mere Latham MD] | [H H Southey M.D]'. Enclosed within rules, with printer's slug at foot. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…