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Some Thoughts of a Doctor
by Frederick Parkes Weber
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd, London, 1935. Revised Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Frederick Parkes Weber was an English dermatologist & a pathologist who practiced medicine in London. His father, Sir Hermann David Weber was a personal physician to Queen Victoria. Endowed with a scholarly mind, he had many and varied interests as is evidenced in this book in which he put aside the clinician and wrote on diverse matters that interested him. Among the many subjects covered are: Free Will & Heredity; Gambling; Eugenics; Dreams; The Soul in Trouble & Psychiatry; Exercise, Work, Rest & Sleep; Fasting; Suicide & Euthanasia; Nature & God and many more. A scarce title, revised edition in the year of the first publication. First Thus. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 183 pages. mottled marks to front & rear covers. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's inscription, lavish, in ink to pre-title page. Black titles spine & front. the top outer corner of pages 31/2 has been torn loose but re-fixed with archive tape; also a single tiny hole passes through the outer margin of many pages - probably insect damage. green cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Medicine & Health; Essays; Philosophy; Psychology & Psychiatry. Inventory No: 3833. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3833
- Title
- Some Thoughts of a Doctor
- Author
- Frederick Parkes Weber
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Medicine/Health/Psychology/Psychiatry/Philosophy/Essays Medicine & Health; Essays; Philosophy; Psychology & Psychiatry. Unbranded Frederick Parkes Weber Some Thoughts of a Doctor
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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