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Radical-mechanics of animal locomotion. With remarks on the setting-up of soldiers, horse and foot, and the supplying of cavalry horses
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1880. 8vo, pp. xviii, [1], 14-294, [2], viii; original purple cloth, gilt title on spine; spine sunned, text clean and tight. Inscribed by the author to "Hon [William] Campbell of Cherry Valley," the New York historian and politician. A book dealing particularly with human locomotion and posture, deriving principles from the movement of snakes. Wainwright makes a case for ambidexterity and calls "the excessive use of one hand" "the cause of a general deformity among civilized men." Item #54634
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