The Human Body

Marie Carmichael Stopes

Verlag: London The Gill Publishing Co Ltd March 1926, 1926

Beschreibung

pp 224 First edition published March 3rd 1926, including 7 colour plates comprising an Atlas of the Human Body. Very good in green cloth, rubbed to edges and corners, internally clean and crisp. No ownership inscription. Note in pen below the title of the first chapter "nb p173" where a sentence stating "the race is of immensely more importance than the individual" is annotated "Wow!". This book comes from the collection of the scientist and pioneer birth-control campaigner Marie Stopes (1880-1958) which was inherited by her son the philosopher Harry Stopes Roe (1924-2014) and sold following the death of his widow Mary Stopes Roe in May of this year. Mary was herself an academic and author, the daughter of the engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, Sir Barnes Wallis. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7257

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Human Body

Verlag: London The Gill Publishing Co Ltd March 1926

Erscheinungsdatum: 1926

Auflage: 1. Auflage