Catalog of medical instruments P. I. Makhin & Co. v Moskve
Каталог медицинских инструментов, принадлежностей для ухода за больными и перевязочных материалов Товарищества П. И. Махина и Ко в Москве
Catalog of medical instruments, nursing supplies and dressing materials of the Partnership of P. I. Makhin and Co. in Moscow (Каталог медицинских инструментов, принадлежностей для ухода за больными и перевязочных материалов Товарищества П. И. Махина и Ко в Москве). Year of publication: 1914. Publisher: Tipo-lithography Tva I.N. Kushnerev and Co., Moscow. The drawings by engraver Kalugin A.I. Illustrated catalog of medical instruments and supplies containing 10,700 drawings on 912 pages. Parts of the catalog: Main part with title, illustrations and prices for each item; Price list for repair (Pochinka) of the tools contained in the catalog; Alphabetical index of items. The title page and the advertising block about other catalogs of the association, as well as the afterword (an address to the readers) are missing.
The authors of the catalog in 1914 wrote about themselves: “We have no luxurious commercial premises, expensive dandy store furnishings, no expenses for expensive catalogs and even more expensive advertising and permanent publications". But the catalogue, which runs to over 900 pages and features 10,700 instruments, provides a unique insight into the state of medicine and surgery in the Russian Empire at the highpoint of its splendour before the First World War.
Condition report
Condition C3. Significant traces of use. Front and back cover boards are detached from the binding. Missing: the title page, and the first 5 pages, as well as the last unnumbered pages with the Afterword (an address to the readers from the company) are missing. Page 6 and 910-912 are badly damaged. Half cloth binding of its time. Front and back cover boards are detached from the spine. Traces of unprofessional restoration. First and last pages damaged, heavily soiled, inner pages in good condition. Some contemporary marginalia and underlinings. Size: 170x245 mm. Pages: from 6 to 912.
Provenance
Acquired through eBay from an antique bookshop, Latvia, 2025
