Ventes live - Lot 849
[Medicine]
Desmographie ou Description des ligamens du corps humain. Avec figures.
Paris, Durand, 1752
€ 150 / 200
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Description du lot
8vo : [4]-xvi-144 pp. (minor spotting).
Cont. mottled calf (some sm. repairs), gilt orn. spine (repaired), red edges. Good copy.
1st French trsl. of this work describing the ligaments of the human body by Weitbrecht (1702-1747), German professor of medicine and anatomy in Russia. He described first and foremost the construction and function of the intervertebral disc. Ill. with 11 numb. folding pls. Ownership entry on endpaper "E.A.L. Habener 1831". Ref. Blake 485. - Conlon 52:1078. - Barbier I 910.