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Documents and dates of modern discoveries in the nervous system
by Walker, A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- An ex-library copy with a label round the spine, stamps and numbers on the front pastedown endpaper amnd title-page, number on l
- ISBN 10
- 0810806649
- ISBN 13
- 9780810806641
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Scarecrow Reprint, Metuchen, 1973 reprint of the 1839 edition with a new introduction. Cloth, gilt cover-title, 8vo, 22 cm,. xi, xii, 172 pp. From the introduction: "Walker's Documents and dates . . . thus merits reprinting because it is a fascinating document in itself, because of its historical importance in making Bell's Idea generally available for the first time, because it contains a still useful collection of texts on the discovery of the function of the spinal nerve roots, and because it contains an interesting and very early collection of texts on the discovery of the spinal reflex. An ex-library copy with a label round the spine, stamps and numbers on the front pastedown endpaper amnd title-page, number on lower edge of textblock, otherwise Good.
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- Seller
- Wykeham Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-39583
- Title
- Documents and dates of modern discoveries in the nervous system
- Author
- Walker, A
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, gilt cover-title, 8vo, 22 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - An ex-library copy with a label round the spine, stamps and numbers on the front pastedown endpaper amnd title-page, number on l
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0810806649
- ISBN 13
- 9780810806641
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Reprint, Metuchen, 1973 reprint of the 1839 edition with a new introduction
- Place of Publication
- Metuchen, Nj
- Date Published
- 1973 reprint of the 1839 editio
- Pages
- xi, xii, 172 pp
- Keywords
- Walker, Alexander Nervous system History of Neurology. 0810806649
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of Medicine;
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Wykeham Books
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LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
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