Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - RARE ANATOMICAL EXTRACT - DESCRIBING THE DEFORMITY CAUSED TO THE FEET OF CHINESE WOMEN AS A RESULT OF THE CULTURAL PRACTICE OF BINDING -COOPER (Bransby Blake, English surgeon, nephew of Astley Cooper, 1792-1853).Anatomical decription of the foot of a Chinese female. [(London): Royal Society, 1829']. Original article extracted from Vol. 119 of the Royal Society's journal, Philosophical Transactions. The whole paper, comprising 6pp [numbered 255 - 260], and one engraved plate. Disbound. Size: 4to (25.7cm x 21cm).Good only condition. Loose and disbound from a larger volume, with tiny puncture marks and some creasing along the spine. Text pages bright and clean. Plate with some scattered foxing, and age-toning, which is more pronounced to the margins than the engraved area. Light creasing and a couple of small nicks to marginal fore-edge of plate. Old institutional library wet-stamp to rear of plate, which bleeds through slightly to the recto. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A rare extract from an 1829 volume of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions, the world's longest running scientific journal, published by the Royal Society of London. "A specimen of a Chinese foot... was removed from the dead body of a female found floating in the river at Canton." key words:
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Binding: Unbound
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Medicine
Language: English
Author: Bransby Blake Cooper
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: Asia
Publisher: Royal Society
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1829
