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Vesalius’s On the Fabric of the Human Body. Volume IV: Book V: The Organs of Nutrition and Generation This volume consists of 19 chapters, illustrated with 31 woodcuts reproduced at or near original size. The final chapter contains Vesalius’s detailed instructions for performing an abdominal dissection. More »
xxii, 241pp. 31 text illus. 9" x 12".
Cloth, dust-jacket, 80-pound Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Eggshell acid-free paper.One of two known presentation copies of Beaumont's Experiments and Observations (1833). Beaumont, William. 1833. Experiments and observations on the gastric juice. First edition. Presentation copy to his friend J. W. Kingsbury. More »
Finest copy available of the first book in English on television. Dinsdale, Alfred. 1926. Television. Very fine copy in very fine dust jacket of the first book in English on television. More »
