A TREATISE ON FRACTURES, LUXATIONS, AND OTHER AFFLICTIONS OF THE BONES, WHEREIN HIS OPINIONS AND PRACTICE, IN SUCH CASES, ARE STATED AND EXEMPLIFIED
Published by Kimber and Sharpless, M. Carey and Son, Philadelphia, 1817
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB
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Condition: Used
Current price: US$ 225.00
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Rebacked with old red leather spine label retained. Rear cover with area of rubbing. Original endpapers, browned, with previous owner's in ink, dated 1837 and 1897. One owner's name also located at top of title-page, small red numeral. See photo. xiv, 15-398. The volume was edited by Xavier Bichat, translated from the French by Charles Caldwell, M.D. Three full-page plates, some browning and old water-stain top free corner. See photo. Pierre-Joseph Desault (1738-1795) was a French anatomist and one of the leading surgeons in France at that time. He established the clinical school of surgery at the Hotel Dieu. He was a founder of modern vascular surgery. The first French edition was published in 1798. Garrison-Morton 5580, Peltier, "Fractures, A History", p.36. Size: Octavo.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A TREATISE ON FRACTURES, LUXATIONS, AND OTHER AFFLICTIONS OF THE BONES, WHEREIN HIS OPINIONS AND PRACTICE, IN SUCH CASES, ARE STATED AND EXEMPLIFIED
- Author
- DESAULT, P.J
- Publisher
- Kimber and Sharpless, M. Carey and Son, Philadelphia
- Publication year
- 1817
- Condition
- Light Edge and Corner Wear
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Full Brown Mottled Calf
- Edition
- Third American Edition.
Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB
Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
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