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I work for a guy who does a lot of appraisals and ive been put in charge of figuring out the value of a bunch of antique. The appeal of collecting beautiful, old medical books is strong for many book collectors. The essential reference books for this subject are choulant, history and bibliography of anatomic illustration, translated and annotated by mortimer frank 1945, thornton and reeves, medical book illustration, a short history 1982, rousselot ed. Medical book appraisals professional book appraisals. Same, but with the rare 50 word vocabulary sticker. Abebooks has been part of the rare book world since going live in 1996. Digitized books are available for reading and download in the nlm digital collections.
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