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Gray's Prescriptionist: A Treatise on the Art of Reading and Compounding Physicians' Prescriptions, with Tables of Weights and Measures, Antidotes, Abbreviations, etc.
by Gray, H. C
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Media, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: M. M. Gray and Co., 1906. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover/ no DJ; Good+ to possibly VG condition; 236 pages + adverts; 7 x 5"". Brown cloth binding shows a corner bump top front, rubbing, soil; spine sunfaded- no legible printing. All gold lettering on cover crisp & intact. Still displays well- esp. front cover. Old owner name in fountain pen in corner of front fixed endpaper. Text & endpapers only v. lightly toned; tight, square copy. No marks seen in text; rear endpaper has old list of compounds in pencil- very light. NO hinge splits, NOT ex library. A nice representative copy (esp. interesting is section on deciphering doctors' handwriting on prescriptions).
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- Bookseller
- EDM Book Loft
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113
- Title
- Gray's Prescriptionist: A Treatise on the Art of Reading and Compounding Physicians' Prescriptions, with Tables of Weights and Measures, Antidotes, Abbreviations, etc.
- Author
- Gray, H. C
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- M. M. Gray and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1906
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Media, Pennsylvania
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Good+
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- VG
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