Henry Wellcome
Rare and modern books
James, Robert Rhodes
Hodder & Stoughton,
1994
Henry Wellcome
Rare and modern books
James, Robert Rhodes
Hodder & Stoughton,
1994
6.25 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1994
- ISBN
- 0340606177
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- James, Robert Rhodes
- Publishers
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Size
- 9.5 x 6.5 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- GREAT BRITAIN_BIOGRAPHY, Medicine, Pharmacy, Research
- Cover description
- Near Fine
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with tiny nick to upper front corner. 422pp. Biography of the founder of the Wellcome Trust, the largest and most significant benefactor ever to British medical research. His life was an extraordinary story of achievement and disappointment, triumph and sadness, that began in deep poverty in northern Wisconsin in 1853 and ended with his death in London in 1936 as a celebrated and greatly honoured millionaire.
