A TREATISE ON SMALL-POX AND MEASLES , TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL ARABIC BY WILLIAM ALEXANDER GREENHILL
Ar-Razi, Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya, commonly called Rhazes [Author]; Greenhill, William Alexander [Translator]
Published by The Sydenham Society, London, 1848
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Octavo, vii, 3-212, 44 pp. Good; bound in contemporary black cloth and marbled paper with extensive wear to spine edges and corners; binding tight; text block age-toned with slight discoloration; ex-library copy with usual markings, including a bookplate to front pastedown, institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil; MF consignment. 1356835. Special Collections. Seller Inventory # 1356835
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Title: A TREATISE ON SMALL-POX AND MEASLES , ...
Publisher: The Sydenham Society, London
Publication Date: 1848
Binding: Hardcover
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A treatise on the small-pox and measles. Translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill
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A treatise on the small-pox and measles / by Abu Becr Mohammed ibn Zacariya ar-Razi (commonly called Rhazes) ; translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill. 1848 [LeatherBound]
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 268. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1848 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 268. Seller Inventory # LB100158090756
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A TREATISE ON THE SMALL-POX AND MEASLES. Translated from the Original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
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vii+212pp. 8vo. Original top grain cowhide with gilt decoration and edges. Ribbon marker. A fine copy. Seller Inventory # 202311
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A TREATISE ON THE SMALL-POX AND MEASLES. Translated from the Original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
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Facsimile Reprint of 1848 Ed. [viii] + 212pp. + [ii]. Ex.-libris Jacob Henry Goldin, marbled e.ps., very good in full modern chestnut brown leather with blind ruling and dec. gilt device to both boards, gilt ruled raised bands gilt motifs and gilt title to spine, a.e.g. No. 72 of The Classics of Medicine Library.G & M 5441 'Rhazes differentiated measles from smallpox.' US$35. Seller Inventory # 291347
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A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles by Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar-Razi (commonly called Rhazes) translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill 1848
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hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Translation of Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar-Razi's treatise on Small-Pox and Measles, being a volume of the Sydenham Society's publications designed to disseminate historically important medical texts from non-English sources; translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill; Rhazes was a 10th-Century Persian physician (and alchemist/philosopher) of the Islamic Golden Age, recognised as the first to distinguish between Small-Pox and Measles - as per the text here translated from the orignal 'al-Judari wa al-Hasbah'; includes Translator's Introduction, Greek Translator's Preface, Arabic Alphabet, and Arabic Index containing the names of all the articles in Materia Medica mentioned by Rhazes; 40 page list of Members of the Sydenham Society to rear of text; blue cloth boards with ornate blind-embossed designs, gilt titling to spine, gilt motif to front and rear board; top edge gilt, text block untrimmed; med-heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, occasional foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed, split to cloth at hinge near head of spine; edgewear to head and tail of spine. no dustwrapper. 212pp (40). 8vo. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 23920
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A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles. Translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill, M.D.
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London, for the Sydenham Society, 1848., 1848
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Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
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8vo. VII, (1), 212, (40) pp. Contemporary blindstamped green cloth with gilt arms to covers and gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. Early English translation of this treatise differentiating measles from small pox. "The first medical description of small pox was written by Rhazes about the year 910" (Garrison/M. 5404). He is considered the greatest medieval physician next to Avicenna. Published by the Sydenham Society, during its short existence between 1843 and 1857 a "powerhouse in disseminating medical literature in the age of the empire" (K. Gotman). - Binding a little rubbed and bumped at extremeties; spine professionally restored. Ownership (dated 1848) of George Edward Wilmot Wood, MD (1806-64) of Winchester, member of the Society, on the flyleaf. - Garrison/Morton 5441. Seller Inventory # 54151
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