Hardcover, genuine deep blue leather binding with raised spine lettered in 22kt gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer.. 490 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Introduction by Henry E. Sigerist. Illustrated. Special limited edition, first edition thus prepared from the first edition of 1943.. Dr. Rosen correlates the development of miners’ diseases through the ages with the advances in the basic medical sciences and with the varying social and economic conditions that have contributed to the rise of occupational diseases in the industry. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.