Live auction - Lot 1228

[Medicine - Orthopedic surgery]

BURGGRAEVE, Adolphe Pierre

Les appareils ouatés ou Nouveau système de déligation pour les fractures, les entorses, les luxations, les contusions, les arthropathies, etc., avec des planches gravées [...].

Brussels, A. Labroue, 1857

€ 150 / 250

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Folio: viii-28 (of 83) pp.; 19 pl. (text lvs missing, author's front. and pl. 10, 12-18 and 20, spotting on title and margins, dampstain on lower margin towards the gutter, sm. tear on title and last pl. repaired with tape).

Modern half black leather with corners, purple cloth on gilt titled covers, flat spine. Sold w.a.f.

Rare first and only edition of Burggraeve's (1806-1902) work on medical bandages and splints. Ill. with 12 (of 20) lithographed pl. by F. Van Loo showing various arm, leg and pelvic splints, stretch bandages etc. Burggraeve was specialised in orthopedic surgery, he was Professor of Anatomy and Chief surgeon at De Bijloke hospital in Ghent. With list of subscribers, only 87 names.
Ref. Worldcat (mentions only 3 copies). - Not in Opac KBR, Lindeboom, BnF.

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Lot 1228

Les appareils ouatés ou Nouveau système de déligation pour les fractures, les entorses, les luxations, les contusions, les arthropathies, etc., avec des planches gravées [...].

BURGGRAEVE, Adolphe Pierre

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