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THE THEORY AND TREATMENT OF FEVERS
by SAPPINGTON, DR. JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Rebound/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Arrow Rock, Missouri: Published By the Author, 1844. Rebound by a master binder. New endpapers. A very clean copy without the usual moderate to heavy foxing. This book was the first medical book published west of the Mississippi River. Dr. John Sappington (1776-1856) used quinine taken from cinchona bark in the treatment of a variety of fevers. He sold his "anti-fever pills" nationwide. 210pp. . First Edition. 1/4 Brown Calf, Marbled Boards. Rebound/No Dust Jacket. Small Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014400
- Title
- THE THEORY AND TREATMENT OF FEVERS
- Author
- SAPPINGTON, DR. JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Rebound
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Published By the Author
- Place of Publication
- Arrow Rock, Missouri
- Date Published
- 1844
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Keywords
- Medicine, Medical History, Missouri Imprints
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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