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Author:Rassweiler, Henry H.
Title:Portfolio of Life; or a Popular Study of the House in which we Live.
Place:Chicago
Publisher:Western Publishing House
Date:1891
Item # :196119
Description:
148, [6] pp. Full page and multilayer chromolithographs. (Folio) 12½x8, purple leather lettered in silver and rebacked with paper spine.
Beautifully illustrated instructional volume containing multilayer chromolithographs of human anatomical structures including the abdomino-thorax at front pastedown, the arm and leg at rear pastedown, and within the text the eye, the ear, and the head.

Image from the auction of the Medical & Science Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD by PBA Galleries: Auctioneers and Appraisers, to be held on 11/20/2008.

Uploaded by astropop on 9 Nov 08, 11.36AM PST.

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