Description:
Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, OH, 1904 -1906, Hardcover MOULTON, Charles Edward (general editor). These books are called “The Doctor"s Recreation Series”. There are 10 of 12 volumes in this collection.
Vol I: The Doctor"s Leisure Hour (Facts & Fancies of Interest to the Doctor and His Patient), Pp. 352, frontis., + 3 p. of plates.
Vol II: The Doctor"s Red Lamp (A Book of Short Stories Concerning the Doctor’s Daily Life), Pp. 343, frontis., + 3 p. of plates.
Vol. III: In The Year 1800 (Being the Relation of Sundry Events Occuring in the Life of Doctor Jonathon Brush During That Year), Pp. 421, frontis, + 3 p. of plates.
Vol IV: A Book About Doctors, Pp. 516, frontis., + 3 p. of plates.
Vol V: The Doctor"s Window (Poems for the Doctor, by the Doctor and about the Doctor), Pp. 288, frontis., + 3 p. of plates.
Vol VI: Passages From the Diary of a Late Physician, Pp. 379, frontis., + 3 p. of plates.
Vol VII: The Inn of Rest (Divers Episodes in Hospital Life Relative to the Doctor, The Nurse, The Patient, 1905 Pp. 267, Frontis, + 3 p. plates.
Vol VIII: Doctors of the Old School (Being Curiosities of Medicine and Ancient Practice), Pp. 251, frontis., + 3 p. of plates.
Vol IX: The Shrine of Aesculapius, Pp. 277, frontis., + 3 p. of plates.
Vol XII: The Doctor"s Who"s Who, Pp. 269, frontis.
All measure 10”x7” bound in a decorative burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and green decorations to spines. Missing Volume 10 and 11.
Condition: All have some degree of wear to spine from shelving. Volume 7 and 8 have the most wear to spine (see pics). Volume 5 has a small chip to middle of spine, all have bumped or worn corners, toned pages, some foxing on tissue guards to plates, All have had a bookplate removed from the inside covers, corners of bookplate remain. Binding remains good on all, some are stronger than others but none are considered weak.
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