COMPLETE SET - RARE "A HISTORY OF PHARMACY IN PICTURES

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You're bidding on A Complete Set of 40 original, FULL-SIZE Lithographs , Beautiful, Vivid colors, never used, never displayed, full set of ROBERT THOM'S "A HISTORY OF PHARMACY IN PICTURES from the 1950's. MINT CONDITION Each print measures 17.5 x 21.25 inches, overall including the captions and the images themselves measure 11.75 x 15.75. Each print comes with a small typed description/legend of what the corresponding print image represents (6 sheets containing 40 legends). In total t are 40 full-color litho images that you are bidding on! (plus original packaging and description cards) This group of prints illustrates milestones in the history of pharmaceutical development. Each image is based on a painting by noted illustration artist Robert A. Thom, who was commissioned by Parke-Davis Company, an American manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, to paint them in the 1950s. During the 1960s, sets of these prints were provided to each of the schools of pharmacy in existence at that time. "In 2002, the LLU School of Pharmacy came into possession of a complete and pristine set of the original 40 prints," relates Avis Ericson, PharmD, administrative dean of Loma Linda University. "Locating a complete set is probably a fairly rare event." (to see the origin of this quote, /llu/sps/newsstory.html?id=945 The prints were normally separately issued, read more

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