1948 Catalogue of Surgical Instruments. Hospital Supplies and Guide to Instruments for Operations
[Sydney], Drug Houses of Australia Limited (stocked and distributed by L. Fairthorne & Son Pty. Ltd., Launceston), 1948 (eighth edition).
Quarto, **REDO NOTING DEFECTIVE LEAF338 pages with thousands of illustrations plus printed endpapers (the title page is the verso of the front free endpaper); a printed envelope containing a numerical index and price list (octavo, 80 pages) is mounted on the front pastedown.
Decorated cloth moderately bumped on the bottom corners, impacting on the book block; minimal conservation to the foot of both joints; trifling signs of use and age; overall a very good copy. The last two leaves of the price list have some expertly sealed tears.
Members of Drug Houses of Australia Limited included Elliotts & Australian Drug Pty. Ltd., Sydney; A.M. Bickford & Sons Ltd., Adelaide; and Felton, Grimwade & Duerdins Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. We have seen examples of this catalogue under Bickford, Elliott and now Fairthorne covers.
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