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A Clinical Atlas of Venereal & Skin Diseases Including Diagnosis, Prognosis & Treatment. Illustrated with Two Hundred and Thirteen Figures, Many of Them Life Size, on Fifty-Eight Beautifully Colored Plates. Also, Many Large and Carefully Executed Engravings in The Text.

Taylor, Robert W. · Philadelphia

Author
Taylor, Robert W.
Date
1889
Place
Philadelphia
Publisher
Lea Brothers & Co.
Language
English
Binding
Folio.(13.5" x 17.5") 427 pp. 58 chromolithographed plates of 213 figures complete, as called for. Quarter black leather with corners over pebbled black leather boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering to second and fourth compartments. All edges speckled red, floral printed endpapers. First free endpaper with repaired (taped) tear, title page toned with tape strengthening to rear of old fold. Virtually no edgewear except that the hinges are rubbed. Two leaves (pp 57/58, 277/278) with closed tears to the margins, pp 276-279 with stain at foot affecting lower edge of plate XXXIX. Plates I and VI misbound according to plate placement, but present, all LVIII plates accounted for, a complete exampes of this important medical text. Described as "The starkly realistic colored plates, together with the lucid text, mark the work as one of the finest atlases of its kind." Heirts of Hippocrates 2043
Edition
First Edition
Category
Science & Medicine
Record
S.I.10014

A Clinical Atlas of Venereal & Skin Diseases Including Diagnosis, Prognosis & Treatment. Illustrated with Two Hundred and Thirteen Figures, Many of Them Life Size, on Fifty-Eight Beautifully Colored Plates. Also, Many Large and Carefully Executed Engravings in The Text. Robert W Taylor. 1889. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. Folio.(13.5" x 17.5") 427 pp. 58 chromolithographed plates of 213 figures complete, as called for. Quarter black leather with corners over pebbled black leather boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering to second and fourth compartments. All edges speckled red, floral printed endpapers. First free endpaper with repaired (taped) tear, title page toned with tape strengthening to rear of old fold. Virtually no edgewear except that the hinges are rubbed. Two leaves (pp 57/58, 277/278) with closed tears to the margins, pp 276-279 with stain at foot affecting lower edge of plate XXXIX. Plates I and VI mis-bound according to plate placement, but present, all LVIII plates accounted for, a complete examples of this important medical text. Described as "The starkly realistic colored plates, together with the lucid text, mark the work as one of the finest atlases of its kind." Heirts of Hippocrates 2043

Condition

Good

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