E r n grigg (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardbound. Zustand: Good. Quarto, marron cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece illustration, xviii, 257 pp., b/w photos, figures, indexes. Some pen marks in the table of contents Inscribed by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Oversized hardcover with illustrated DJ. Green boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1965. Publication Number 579 of the American Lecture Series. 974 pages. Small closed tears along top and bottom edge of DJ. Boards and pages unmarked. Binding clean and tight. Very Good condition. Black and white photographs throughout. Includes a foreword by Benjamin H. Orndoff. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please contact us with questions or if you'd like to see photographs.…

dj. First Edition. Large Quarto. 29cm. Publisher's original deep bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 974pp. A near fine copy in dustjacket, with only the lightest traces of wear. An eccentric and fascinating fully illustrated history of the science of Radiology, the X-Ray, intersections with military nuclear research etc. Interestingly, and this would seem to be entirely dependent upon the scholarly eccentricity of Dr. Grigg, the history veers into grammar, symbology (an assessment of how many radiological institutions and authorities have mandala-inspired logos and emblems is particularly odd and facinating), and the metaphysical or esoteric aspects of the development of x-ray science. It's a far cry from the usual dry medical monograph, and manages to be informative and compelling whilst also remaining energetic and rather joyful, which is not a word usually applied to the development of medical equipment. …