Ernest Roberts — Enteric Fever in India

Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce study of the enteric fever in India, a detailed work complete with charts and maps. The first edition of this very scarce work.A study on typhoid fever in India, epidemiology, and military hygiene. This work looks at the enteric fever in India, as well as other tropical and subtropical regions. With two folding maps, one folding chart, and many in-text charts, tables, and maps. Collated, complete.By Ernest Roberts. Bookplate of Albert J. Chalmers to the front paste down, in addition to a presentation label, presenting the work to the Royal Society of Medicine in 1920. Chalmers was a colonial physician, who was pioneering in the research of tropical medicine. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with marks to the boards and spine, including an ink mark to the front board. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Torn label to the head of the spine. Library stamp to the tail of the spine. Front hinge is strained, rear hinge is starting. Bookplate and institutional label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. The occasional institutional stamp. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .