Ventes live - Lot 1377
[Medicine - Surgery]
Dictionnaire de chirurgie, communiqué à l'Encyclopédie [...]. Extrait et rédigé par M. P.F. docteur en médecine & membre de plusieurs académies.
Paris, Saillant & Nyon, 1772
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Description du lot
2 vol., 8vo: [8]-540, [4]-526-[6] pp.; 6 pl. (browning, minor spotting).
Contemp. marbled calf, gilt decorated spines with raised bands, red and black leather title and vol.-numb. labels, red edges (vol.-numb. labels renewed, corners and one turn-in restored).
First edition of this dictionary by Louis (1723-1792), military surgeon, physician to the King, Secretary to the Academy of Surgery, and designer of the guillotine. His papers written for Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia are gathered here and edited by François Paul. Ill. complete with 6 engr. fold. plates.
ref. Blake 277. - Conlon 72:999.
Prov. Barret (ms. mention).