Live auction - Lot 409
[Medicine - Surgery]
Consultations sur la pluspart des maladies qui sont du ressort de la chirurgie.
Paris, P.Fr. Didot le Jeune, 1765
€ 100 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: xvi-431-[3] pp. (usual browning, some min. damp stains in the margins).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (corners sl. def., restauration to lower cover, joints, head and tail def.).
First edition and the culmination of 50 years of surgical practice by the French surgeon Le Dran (1685-1770), a specialist in lichotomy, with valuable case reports on military and general surgery.
Ref. Wellcome III:473. - Blake 261.