Anatomy, descriptive and surgical / by Henry Gray, F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; Lecturer of Anatomy at st. George's Hospital Medical School ; edited by T. Pickering Pick, F.R.C.S., Consulting Surgeon to St. George's Hospital and to the Victoria Hospital for Children; H.M. Inspector of Anatomy in England and Wales; and Robert Howden, M.A., M.B., C.M., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Durham; Examiner in Anatomy in the Universities of Durham and Edinburgh, and to the Board of Education, South Kensington ; with a new introduction by John A. Crocco, M.D., Chief of Pulmonary Services, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Henry, 1827-1861.

Contributor:

Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919.

Howden, Robert, 1856-1941.

Crocco, John A.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Classic collector's edition.

The classic collector's edition.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human anatomy.

Anatomy.

Medical Subjects:

Anatomy.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1257 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Revised American, from the fifteenth English, edition with 780 illustrations, many of which are new.

Other Title:

Gray's Anatomy, The Classic Collector's edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Bounty Books, [©1977]

Summary:

This landmark 1901 edition of one of the greatest reference works of all time is a must for physicians, students, artists, and the medically curious. The text is teeming with fascinating information. New introduction quality printing, handsome binding, and a fantastic low price. 780 detailed illustrations and diagrams.

Notes:

Title and edition statement printed in red on title page.

"Copyright MCMLXXVII by Crown Publishers, Inc."

"This edition is published by Bounty Books, a division of Crown Publishers."

"This stellar book represents the acme of anatomical description over the last century and will probably still be the premier text in anatomy over the next one hundred years ... This commemorative edition is a very fitting tribute to Dr. Henry Gray ... whose colossal work will be remembered by medical historians past and future and by twentieth-century physicians and surgeons as the anatomy text of our age."--Introduction.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0517223651

9780517223659

OCLC:

10049622