Author: Cooper, Astley
Title: Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints
Description: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green 1829 xxiv, 507, 34 engraved plates. . HB. 4to, recent cloth and endpapers. Occasional spotting and marginal pencil markings; tape repair to one page; blood-vessels neatly hand-coloured in red to one plate; contemporary ownership signature to title page (Thomas Smellie, Surgeon). ex libris inkstamp of J.R. Kirkup FRCS to front pastedown. Kirkup is a retired orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in the history of medicine and historical surgical instruments. He was honorary curator of the Hunterian Museum's instrument collection.. 6th edition. Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841) was a pre-eminent London surgeon, professor of comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1813-1815, vice-president of the Royal Society, a member of the court of examiners of the college in 1822, where he served as president twice, in 1827 and 1836, and author of a number of influential medical works. In his published works, he paid particular attention to high-quality illustrations, drawn by a succession of artists that he himself employed. (ODNB).This finely illustrated book is a classic of Orthopaedics..
Keywords: Medicine; PBFA; Surgical Anatomy
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Title: Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints
Description: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green 1829 xxiv, 507, 34 engraved plates. . HB. 4to, recent cloth and endpapers. Occasional spotting and marginal pencil markings; tape repair to one page; blood-vessels neatly hand-coloured in red to one plate; contemporary ownership signature to title page (Thomas Smellie, Surgeon). ex libris inkstamp of J.R. Kirkup FRCS to front pastedown. Kirkup is a retired orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in the history of medicine and historical surgical instruments. He was honorary curator of the Hunterian Museum's instrument collection.. 6th edition. Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841) was a pre-eminent London surgeon, professor of comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1813-1815, vice-president of the Royal Society, a member of the court of examiners of the college in 1822, where he served as president twice, in 1827 and 1836, and author of a number of influential medical works. In his published works, he paid particular attention to high-quality illustrations, drawn by a succession of artists that he himself employed. (ODNB).This finely illustrated book is a classic of Orthopaedics..
Keywords: Medicine; PBFA; Surgical Anatomy
Price: GBP 250.00 = appr. US$ 357.00 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: A32964
- Book number: A32964
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