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1922 Leopold Auenbrugger's Inventum Novum
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed
A limited edition, being number three-hundred and eighty-one of an unknown limitation.
Editor's presentation copy, inscribed in German to Sir D'Arcy Power, dated October 1923.
D'Arcy Power's bookplate to the front paste down. Power was a prominent British surgeon and medical historian, who contributed over two hundred articles of famous surgeons and other medical figures to the 'Dictionary of National Biography'.
A facsimile of 'Inventum Novum' by Leopold Auenbrugger, edited by Max Neuburger. This volume contains a facsimile of the original text in Latin, as well as the French, and English translations.
This medical work is devoted to tuberculosis, an important work in which Auenbrugger points out how to detect cavities of the lungs, and how their contents can be determined.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, two folding plates, and two plates.
Collated, complete.
Condition
In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart. Light discolouration and age-toning to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Editor's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good
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