Treatise on Diseases of the Skin: For the Use of Advanced Students and Practitioners
by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1907. Fifth Edition revised. Three quarter leather. A very good revised fifth edition. With 267 illustrations in the text, and 34 full-page colored and half-tone plates. Three-quarter leather over blue cloth. Four raised bands. Gilt title-stamping on spine. Rubbing to corners. Lovely blue marbled endpapers. Water damage to page edges. Binding is sturdy and square. Filled with color plates.1150 pp, including index, with a 16 page catalog of medical books in the back. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches tall, thick octavo. Mentioned in JAMA's "THE EARLY HISTORY OF AMERICAN DERMATOLOGY" Heavy and may require extra shipping.
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 845
- Title
- Treatise on Diseases of the Skin: For the Use of Advanced Students and Practitioners
- Author
- Henry Weightman Stelwagon
- Format/Binding
- Three quarter leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifth Edition revised
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. B. Saunders Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science & Technology;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....