A TREATISE ON ARTIFICIAL LIMBS WITH RUBBER HANDS AND FEET Containing a Brief History of Prothesis
Published by A. A. Marks, New York, 1901
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 90.00
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Octavo, 530 pages, black covers, top cover and frontispiece have a soft crease, rear cover chipped. "This book is a treatise on prothesis, in contradistinction to a pamphlet or catalogue. It is a dissertation on stumps, deformities, and the manner in which dismembered bodies are repaired by prothesis. . The attention of the medical and surgical profession is called to the articles on 'Amputations Prothetically Considered,' and 'Relation of Surgery to Prothesis.' ' Illustrated with 800 cuts from photographs. With a printed frontispiece photograph of a distinguished A. A. Marks. "In a few brief years Mr. Marks had amassed more experience, had conceived more ideas, had originated more systems, and had accomplished more for the relief of the maimed than the combined achievements of all who had preceded him." - p.12.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A TREATISE ON ARTIFICIAL LIMBS WITH RUBBER HANDS AND FEET Containing a Brief History of Prothesis
- Author
- MARKS, A. A. Abraham Amasa Marks. George E. Marks
- Publisher
- A. A. Marks, New York
- Publication year
- 1901
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Illustrator
- 800 cuts from photographs
- Edition
- Revised Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- history, Medicine, prosthetics, prosthetics prothetics, surgery
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …
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