Author: John B. Blake
Title: A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine
Description: Bethesda, Maryland, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this catalogue of eighteenth century printed books found in the National Library of Medicine. An extensive catalogue of the eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of medicine compiled by John B. Blake. The first edition of 1979, DHEW publication No. 79-104.The United Stated National Library of Medicine is the world's largest medical library, containing over seven million books, journals, reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences, including some of the world's oldest and rarest works. This catalogue lists and describes the all the eighteenth-century books held by the History of Medicine Division of the library, with approximately twenty five thousand titles, including both monographs and serials. An exciting catalogue which reveals the depth and breadth of the great collection which successive generations of librarians have been building for over a century. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With a bookplate loosely inserted, 'Stewart E. Reed, DPM', former Podiatric Medicine student at Rosallind Franklin University, "with compliments." Also inserted is a printed article from the British Medical Journal Volume 283, dated 1981 by John L Thornton 'Useful for Medical Historian.' With J. Colin Dagnall's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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