Therapeutic Guide; the most important results of more than forty years' practice with personal observations regarding the truly reliable and practically verified curative indications in actual cases of disease (translated with notes and new remedies)
by Doctor G.H.G. Jahr, Chevalier, etc; translated by Charles J. Hempel, M.D
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Boericke, & Tafel, 1876. First thus. Hardcover. Good. Despite the condition, sold as a scarce original American edition. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 364 pages, gilt titles on full leather. A good + sturdy hardcover original edition overall with moderate shelf wear and light exterior soiling, BUT both covers are loose at hinges, with chipping at the top and bottom of the spine, fore-corner tips worn through to boards; internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39545
- Title
- Therapeutic Guide; the most important results of more than forty years' practice with personal observations regarding the truly reliable and practically verified curative indications in actual cases of disease (translated with notes and new remedies)
- Author
- Doctor G.H.G. Jahr, Chevalier, etc; translated by Charles J. Hempel, M.D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First thus
- Publisher
- Boericke, & Tafel
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- eyes; Surgery; health; Anatomy; disease; History of Medicine; Biology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
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