General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics -in Fifty Lectures

Billroth, Dr. Theodor
1984 (Special Limited Edition). The Classics Of Surgery Library , Birmingham, Alabama

Number 1258 of a limited edition of 7,500 copies from the private library of J.H. Seymour together with a leather bookplate accidentally adhered upside down to the rear paste- down. Theodor Bilroth was a German surgeon, widely regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery (1829-1894) being the first surgeon to perform both an esophagectomy and a subtotal colectomy amongst other surgical firsts

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Specifications

Author Billroth, Dr. Theodor
Publisher The Classics Of Surgery Library
Place Published Birmingham, Alabama
Year Published 1984 (Special Limited Edition)
Date of First Edition
or Edition Notes
1871
Size Royal 8vo - Octavo, 254mm x 165mm
Chapters XX
Pages 677pp

Condition Report

Cover Hardcover in navy blue top grade cow-hide with specially commissioned original blue marble moire fabric endpapers by richard J. Wolfe. A.e.g. and covers are brass-dye stamped with 22 Karat gold plus no dust wrapper as issued but the silk ribbon bookmark is in perfect order.
Overall Internally it is in a pristine state though some minor flecking is lightly showing through the gilt edges.