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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. This is a complete set of 131 cards and a stereoscope for viewing them. It comes in its original box with a paper index for the cards.

New York, Medical Art Publishing Co., 1910/11, 8°, 128 stereofarblith. Tafeln; in feinem Leinenkasten mit Stereobetrachter. First edition of the first coloured stereoscopic atlas of skin diseases! The Stereoscopic Skin Clinic. (The stereoscopic skin clinic; an atlas of diseases of the skin consisting of coloured stereoscopic illustrations and a text in the form of clinical lectures designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine.) (NY, Medical Art Publishing Co.), 1910 by S.I.Rainforth The cards are arranged in alphabetic order, from Acne to Zoster, with text on the back of the cards consisting of description, diagnosis and treatment. William Culp Darrah, the historian of stereography, waxed enthusiastic in his survey of the field: "Some very remarkable multicoloured lithoprints, illustrating diseases of the skin, were copyrighted and issued in 1910 by Doctor S. I. Rainforth of New York.The colours of the images are remarkably lifelike, the skin and pathologic conditions are scientifically accurate. It is unfortunate that these cards are so rare.because they represent some of the best stereo lithoprinting."--Darrah, Stereo Views. A History of Stereographs in America and Their Collection." p.163 Item.