Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied
by Henry Gray
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 1944. Twenty-eighth edition. 1558 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces.
Synopsis
Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly shortened to Gray's Anatomy, is an English-language human anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on the subject. The book was first published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical Theory in the United Kingdom in 1858, and the following year in the United States.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1714381852DPB
- Title
- Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied
- Author
- Henry Gray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Date Published
- 1944
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....