Lankester Owen (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. The covers are heavily rubbed and discoloured with large chips to corners and rip to spine, detached from main book. The stapled binding is secure. The pages are clear with tanning, mild foxing throughout and chips to corners. This book has 16 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair copy without dust jacket. General signs of age etc. and small section of rear cover missing. Cover is loose from remainder of booklet. See photos.

Illustrated by diagrams and a COLORED MANNIKIN containing the precise position and relative size of the various Organs of the Human Body, arranged in a moveable form. Pictorial stiff wrappers with original red cloth spine, minor soiling to covers, overall VG+. Foldout mannikin NF. 4to. 16pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. 4to. 16pp. Minimal wear to extremities. Clean, unmarked pages with minimal toning. Foldout mannequin in Fine Condition.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pictoral covers. Includes the fold out body to the rear. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

16 pp. Illustrated by diagrams and a "Colored Mannikin containing the precise position and relative size of the various Organs of the Human Body, arranged in a moveable form." 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards printed in color. Some light use at corners; one corner chipped; very nice.

8vo., First Edition, descriptive text with with coloured anatomical illustration and coloured overlays; pictorial wrappers, red cloth back, wire-stitched as issued (stitches loose), else a very good, bright, clean copy. With large contemporary trade advertisement mounted on front paste-down.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original flexible red paper covered card boards, slate blue cloth down the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains (vi), 79 pp with 4 full-page colour plates and 51 anatomical monochrome illustrations in the text. Rubbing to the front cover corners, else in Very Good condition. Scarce. Member of the P.B.F.A. MEDICINE & HEALTH.

Hardback. Condition: Good Only. Unknown (illustrator). - Two intriguing illustrated pieces on anatomy, both offering readers pictorial representations of the human body, both published to the end of the nineteenth century. In quarter cloth, with the publisher's original paper boards. Both volumes contain numerous in-text illustrations and colour mannikins of the human body to the rear. By offering pictorial representations of the human body to readers, they both offered students cheaper and more practical means of studying anatomy wherever they were without having to rely on clunky or expensive plaster models. - The Human Body: A Short Account of the Anatomical Arrangement and Physiological Functions of the Various Organs of the Human Body, written by Owen Lankester - Philips' Anatomical Model: A Pictorial Representation of the Human Frame and Its Organs, written by Dr. Schmidt, with this English edition editied by William S. Furneaux. In quarter cloth, with the publisher's original paper boards. Externally, slight browning and dulling to boards, with creases to edges, mostly to the extremities. Faint spots to spine and extremities of Schmidt. Signs of browning and offsetting to end papers. Pictorial diagrams on rear pastedowns remain bright and clean. Internally, Schmidt firmly bound, and Lankester text loose from wraps. Slight age toning and spotting, mostly to first and final leaves, and to leaf extremities. Good Only. book.