The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus

by James Henry Breasted

$150 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1984. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. XXIV, 596pp Text , 8 leaves of plates. Original gilt-stamped green leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Publisher's booklet laid in. Exquisite edition of this Ancient Egyptian medical text which is also the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma. It dates to Dynasties 16-17 of the

• Binding: Hardcover

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