Traité des tumeurs et des ulcères [...] [and] Recueil de plusieurs pièces concernant le traité des tumeurs, et des ulcères, et l'extrait qu'on en trouve dans le Journal de Médecine de M. Vandermonde.

2 vol., 8vo: xvii-[3]-478, [4]-454-[2 bl.]-115 pp. (some min. spotting).

Contemp. red morocco, triple gilt border with small acorns in the corners on covers, gilt orn. spines on 5 raised bands (def. at heads and tails, joints splitting), black leather title labels, gilt sides, gilt inside dentelles, gilt edges, brocade papers.

Second edition of this work on tumors and ulcers by the French doctor Jean Astruc (1684-1766). Rare and less known treatise, here with the "Recueil de plusieurs pièces" only mentioned by Osler for the 1759 ed. which deals with Vandermonde's criticism of the present work.
Ref. Blake 22. - Wellcome II:64. - COPAC. - Osler 1856.
Prov. Antoine Louis, Acad. Reg. Chirurg. Secret. Perpet., (i.e. French surgeon and physiologist, 1723-1792) (bookpl.).