📘 Steiger & Boitel – Precision Work for Partial Dentures – 1959 – Presentation Copy
Important and richly illustrated technical manual on precision work and attachments for removable partial dentures, published in Zurich in 1959 by Alfred A. Steiger and Raoul H. Boitel.
This particular copy is especially notable as a personal presentation / association copy: Alfred A. Steiger inscribed the book to Dr. Beat Müller, Zurich, who is explicitly listed on the title page as one of the contributors to the volume.
📖 Bibliographic details:
- Title: Precision Work for Partial Dentures
- Subtitle: A Technical Manual for Office and Laboratory
- Authors: Alfred A. Steiger, D.D.S. and Raoul H. Boitel, Dr. med. dent., D.D.S.
- Contributions by: Beat Müller, Augusto Biaggi, Marc Frey and Eugen Dolder
- Place: Zurich, Switzerland
- Year: 1959
- Printed by Buchdruckerei Berichthaus, Zurich
- Distribution: STEBO, Zurich / Swiss Dentistry Distributors, Evanston, Illinois
- Language: English
- 229 pages
- extensively illustrated with photographs, technical drawings and diagrams
- index
- original blue hardcover binding with gilt lettering
- size: approx. 25.5 × 18 cm
- weight: approx. 791 g
✍️ Personal presentation inscription:
On the front free endpaper, Alfred A. Steiger wrote a personal dedication to Dr. Beat Müller, Zurich, thanking him for his friendly cooperation.
The inscription is dated:
Zurich, 7 July 1959
and signed by Steiger.
Beat Müller is not merely a former owner: he is named on the title page as one of the contributors to the book.
This makes the volume a particularly attractive association copy linking author and contributor directly.
🦷 Dental and historical importance:
The book deals with the planning and construction of partial dentures, precision attachments, matrices and patrices, splints, bar systems, resilient designs, abutment preparation and the coordinated clinical and laboratory workflow between dentist and dental technician.
It became a frequently cited reference in later prosthodontic literature on precision attachments and removable partial dentures.
📌 Condition:
Very attractive condition.
The original blue binding is clean and firm with only light age-related wear. The gilt lettering remains well preserved.
The binding is tight and the pages are clean with only light age toning.
The handwritten presentation inscription is clearly preserved.
No dust jacket is documented.
Please study the photographs carefully as they form part of the condition description.
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