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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
2-Aug-2014
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Description:
Trade Catalogues on Medical Equipment (2). [Trade Catalogue - Medical Equipment ] Rainal Freres Catalogue General Paris, Leon & Jules Raynal Freres, 1905. Several hundred illustrations, 426pp., large 8vo.(27 x 19 cm), original printed green card wrappers a little worn and dusty, neatly rebacked with defective original spine laid over, internally excellent. a fine catalogue of an extraordinary range and variety of medical appliances, correctional aids, therapeutic equipment &c., all priced. Artificial limbs, braces, exercise aids, special beds, stair lifts, wheelchairs and so on many of the engravings involving people displaying the equipment, and also a huge variety of probes, syringes, hernia belts, &c., &c. An excellent overview of an important aspect of medical practice at the turn of the 19th cent,; [Trade Catalogue - medical instruments and apparatus] Aesculapius Surgical Instruments. 8th Edition. Sections A,B,C. 3 Volumes.Tuttlingen, the Jetter & Scheerer Co., n.d. [c.1937?] Section a - Pages 1-111. Section B - Pages 301-626. Section C - Pages 901-1317. Each volume with many hundreds of line illustrations, 4to., cloth. Bindings somewhat marked and rubbed, contents very good. the catalogue was published in several sections, each covering different areas of surgery and medical practice. Also published in German and French, these English editions seem less common.
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