MEMORANDA ON POISONS
by Tanner, Thomas Hawkes
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- Hardcover
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1864.. viii,112pp. 16mo. Original cloth. Binding stained, head of spine chipped and damaged, front board detached with front free endpaper and half title. Ownership inscriptions and stamp on front free endpaper, light tanning and soiling to lower corner throughout. About good. Interesting war-time publication on poisons, intended to help physicians detect "symptoms due to the villainous administration of deadly drugs." Includes sections on arsenic, mercury, lead, vegetable and animal irritants, opium, chloroform, alcohol, narcotic gases, tobacco, hemlock, venomous and rabid animals, etc. According to the titlepage this Philadelphia edition is "From the last London edition."
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM27381
- Title
- MEMORANDA ON POISONS
- Author
- Tanner, Thomas Hawkes
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lindsay and Blakiston
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1864.
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William Reese Company
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About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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