Another Letter to a Young Physician: to Which Are Appended Some Other Medical Papers
by Jackson, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth with mild rubbing and scuffing, bumped spine ends/corners, and lightly faded spine with rubbed gilt title faintly visible. Solid binding and clean text. Toned and lightly foxed interior. Tiny chips to fore edges of several pages (a little roughly cut). Former owner name to first two blanks. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 179 pages .
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Details
- Seller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10602
- Title
- Another Letter to a Young Physician: to Which Are Appended Some Other Medical Papers
- Author
- Jackson, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1861
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
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