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Boerhaave's men at Leyden and after / E. Ashworth Underwood
by Underwood, Edgar Ashworth (1899-)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0852243049
- ISBN 13
- 9780852243046
- Seller
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Galway, Ireland
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About This Item
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: personal library of Denis Gibbs (including bookplate). Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; vii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references and index. Contents; Chapters cover the Leyden period and students' subsequent careers. Subjects; Boerhaave, Herman 1668-1738. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden - Alumni and alumnae. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Faculteit der Geneeskunde. Royal Society (Great Britain). Leiden University. Royal College of Physicians of London. 17th Century. 18th Century. Universities and colleges - Alumni and alumnae. Physicians - Great Britain. Medicine - Great Britain - History. Medicine - Early works to 1800. History of medicine, 18th Cent - Great Britain - biography. History of medicine, 18th Cent - Netherlands - biography. Students, Medical - history - Great Britain - biography. Students, Medical - history - Netherlands - biography. Medicine - History - 18th century. History, 18th Century. Education, Medical - history. Physicians, British. Biography - Great Britain. Biography - Netherlands. Medicine, Medieval. Medicine - 15-18th centuries. Hospital Staff. Medical personnel - History. Leiden (Netherlands). Universities - Netherlands. Leiden. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. British graduates with medical degrees. Careers, 1701-1800. universities - Netherlands - Leiden - Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden - British - 1701-1800 - graduates with medical degrees - careers. Netherlands - Leiden - Universities - Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden - British medical graduates - Career - 1701-1800. 17th Century - 18th Century - Academia Lugduno-Batava - Biography - BOERHAAVE, Herman - History - Leiden - Netherlands - UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth. Genre. Biography. Monographs.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 238429
- Title
- Boerhaave's men at Leyden and after / E. Ashworth Underwood
- Author
- Underwood, Edgar Ashworth (1899-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0852243049
- ISBN 13
- 9780852243046
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1977
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