scouttetten (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name in ink on title page and front cover, bookplate laid in on front paste down. Cloth spine and paper over boards, (vi), 100 pages, includes folding map that has several large tears, also seems that someone traced the routes on the map with red ink. Covers soiled and worn, spine ends heavily chipped, pages toned, some foxing and offsetting. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 11 oz. Category: Medicine & Health; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012135.

First American edition. vi, [5]-100 pp. Illus. with 1 folding map. Sm. 4to. First English translation of Scouttetten's pioneering study of the ravages of cholera. The author (1799-1871) was a famed French military surgeon, and professor at the School of Medicine in Strassburg, who was sent to Berlin in 1831. Amer. Imprints 14644. Cordasco 30-0787. A very good copy, new endpapers, rebound, boards lightly rubbed, scattered foxing, map with small tears at folds and one paper tape repair. Modern half calf over marbled boards.