first edition Boards
1856 · London
by Bell, Jacob (editor)
London: John Churchill, 1856. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. viii, 583 pages. 8vo. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Wear overall to the binding, fundamentally sound. Some issues have stamp of old hospital library. Boards. Contains 12 issues of the Journal and Transactions. Issues include Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society, plus extracts and original articles of interest to the membership. Ethics issues, criminal poisoning, history of fats, notes on materia medica at the Paris exposition, experiments with deriving ether, electrical apparatus, etc etc appear as topics in a quick flip through the pages. A fascinating read with many pointers to other period sources.
(Inventory #: 26965)
(978) 887-4053
