Notes on Nursing: What it Is and What it is Not and Notes on Hospitals, Being Two Papers Read... [Leather Binding]
by Nightingale, Florence
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0397540000
- ISBN 13
- 9780397540006
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: 1962-1987. Near Fine. Reprint. Hardcover. 0397540000 . This book contains Florence Nightingale's famous foundational work on nursing, which is reprinted in facsimilie from the original 1859 London edition. Original publisher's brown binding with gilt spine and cover lettering. There is a small previous owner name sticker on the upper corner of the front inside pastedown, else this is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. This book appears to have been unread. Note: the date of this facsimilie listed in the book is 1946, but this is clearly a newer edition as the book has an isbn number above the date. ; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 79 pages .
Synopsis
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. A 136-page volume, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Florence Nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive guide from which to teach one's self to be a nurse but to help in the practice of treating others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20102
- Title
- Notes on Nursing: What it Is and What it is Not and Notes on Hospitals, Being Two Papers Read... [Leather Binding]
- Author
- Nightingale, Florence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0397540000
- ISBN 13
- 9780397540006
- Publisher
- 1962-1987
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- This edition first published
- June 1957
- Keywords
- 0397540000, Medicine, Nursing
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