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Froben Press, 1932-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good.
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The gold-headed cane. Edited with explanatory and illustrative notes and an essay on William MacMichael, M.D., his life, his works, and his editors by Herbert Spencer Robinson. Containing the original illustrations of the 1828 edition and hitherto unpublished portraits of the MacMichael family and a reproduction of William MacMichael?s handwriting
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The Gold-Headed Cane. Edited With Explanatory And Illustrative Notes And An Essay On William Macmichael, M.D., His Life, His Works, And His Editors By Herbert Spencer Robinson. Containing The Original
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Froben Press, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Froben Press, 1932. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Health::Nineteenth Century Health::History of Medicine 6956 6956
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The Gold-Headed Cane: containing the original illustrations of the 1828 edition and hitherto unpublished portraits of the Macmichael family and a reproduction of William Macmichael's handwriting
by Macmichael, William (1784-1839). Robinson, Herbert Spencer [ed.]
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New York: Froben Press, Inc., 1932. Association copy. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham medical Institute with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; 223 pages. Subjects; William Macmichael. The Macmichael family. Medico-literary classics. Genre; Prose narrative.
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The Gold-Headed Cane [Biographical sketches of John Radcliffe, Richard Mead, Antony Askew, David Pitcairn, and Matthew Baillie]
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London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1827. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Recounts the , successively in possession of the Georgian physicians John Radcliffe, Richard Mead, Anthony Askew, David Pitcairn, and Matthew Baillie, and then returned to a glass case in the library of London's Royal College of Physicians. "A gold-headed cane was once a conspicuous part of the physician's adornment, and the particular gold-headed cane of this work was owned by Dr. John Radcliffe (1650-1714), an irascible London physician, who passed it on to a younger contemporary. The custom of passing on the cane continued through a series of five physicians, ending with Matthew Baillie, whose widow presented it to the Royal College of Physicians in 1823. The originally anonymous book is written as an 'autobiography' of the cane and, in a series of charming essays, tells the story—actually biographies—of its several owners. Along the way there is much information concerning the state of medicine and its practice in England…
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