Buy this book on-line PHOTOGRAPH (LISTER, Spencer) : An Original Sepia Portrait Photograph of Sir Spencer Lister By Brittain,Brittain, Johannesburg, 1926
A fine sepia photograph, 20 x 15 cm, SIGNED by Spencer Lister on the mount, as well as by the photographer, in the original cream wove folder, tissue guard. In choice state. Sir Frederick Spencer Lister (8 April 1876 - 6 September 1939) was an English-born South African doctor and bacteriologist. Lister was born in Norwell, Nottinghamshire, and trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London, qualifying in 1905. He then went to the Transvaal, serving as medical officer to the Premier Diamond Mines from 1907 to 1912 and to the Rand Gold Mines near Johannesburg from 1912 to 1917. In 1917 he was appointed Research Bacteriologist at the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. He later became Director of the Institute and Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 1928 he served on the South African Medical Council. He wrote important papers on pneumonia and influenza and was also an expert on leprosy. He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours. Lister died of a heart attack in the library of the Institute for Medical Research. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of PHOTOGRAPH (LISTER, Spencer) : An Original Sepia Portrait Photograph of Sir Spencer Lister By Brittain,. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, livres d'occasion, used books, livres illustrées and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |