Title: Medical and surgical memoirs.Author: Nathan SmithPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and ...
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Title: Medical and surgical memoirs.Author: Nathan SmithPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00617500CollectionID: CTRG10186129-BPublicationDate: 18310101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "Biographic memoir of the author" p. [9]-37.Collation: 347 p., pl.: port.; 22 cm
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Fine. 8vo. HEAVY. vii, 374pp, errata, index, bw ills; 15pp publisher's booklet. Original full green leather decorated and titled in gilt, all edges gilt, 'marbled' endpapers, bookmark ribbon. Leather label inside front covers says this #103 of limited edition of 7500 copies. As new. Handsome facsimile edition for the Classics of Surgery Library. Originally published in 1831. Smith was the leading American teacher of medicine and surgery of his time.
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Hbk 375pp frontispiece portrait of Smith other b/w illustatns original leather boards recently re-backed with faux leather good deal of foxing and other discoloration to text block which however remains entirely legible prev owner's name on second free endpaper and title page (from 1831) and institutional rubber stamp on title page (undated) hinges are tight though worn and the text is otherwise clean and tight and a good candidate for restoration.