Research Catalog

Title

Thornton's medical books, libraries, and collectors : a study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences / edited by Alain Besson.

Author

Thornton, John Leonard.

Publication

• Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower Pub. Co., [1990].
• ©1990

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Details

Additional Authors

• Besson, Alain.
• Thornton, John Leonard.
• Daniel and Eleanor Albert Collection $$5 WU

Description

xxi, 417 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Medical publishing > History
• Medical literature > Collectors and collecting > History
• Medical libraries > History
• Medicine > Bibliography
• Medicine > Information services
• Medicine > History
• Bibliography of Medicine
• History of Medicine
• Medicine
• Libraries, Medical > history
• Societies, Medical
• history of medicine
• 06.01 history of documentary information
• Medicine > Information services
• Medical libraries
• Medical literature > Collectors and collecting
• Medical publishing
• Bibliographie médicale > Histoire
• Bibliothèque médicale > Histoire
• Histoire médecine
• Geneeskunde
• Boekwezen

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies
• History
• History (form)

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Medical books, libraries, and collectors.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Medical books before the invention of printing / Peter Murray Jones -- Medical incunabula / Dennis E. Rhodes -- Medical books from 1701 to 1800 / Patricia C. Want -- Medical books of the nineteenth century / Geoffrey Davenport -- The growth of medical periodical literature / Leslie T. Morton -- Medical bibliographies and bibliographers / John Symons -- Private medical libraries / Alain Besson -- Medical libraries of today / Roy B. Tabor.

ISBN

• 0566054817
• 9780566054815

LCCN

90182963

OCLC

• ocm22277793
• 22277793
• SCSB-1926044

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library