The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood:. For the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine
first edition Hardcover
1897 · New York
by Holt, Luther Emmett
New York: D. Appleton, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. The first real complete and authoritative American text on pediatrics. (Cone, History of American Pediatrics, 104- 105pp; Levinson, p.108; Veeder, 33-60pp.) Overall, a handsome copy. Light/moderate shelf wear (tips through), light wear at head, minor rubbing at hinges/tips, spine evenly toned (gilt bright), else tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, black leather spine and tips, blue pebbled cloth boards, red dye speckled at text block edges. 8vo. xvii, 1117pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates (one fold-out). Index. (Inventory #: 3752)