Dictionnaire universel de médecine, de chirurgie, de chymie, de botanique, d'anatomie, de pharmacie, d'histoire naturelle, &c. [...]. Traduit de l'anglois de M. James, par Mrs Diderot, Eidous et Toussaint. Revu, corrigé & augmenté par M. Julien Busson [...].

6 vol., folio; 66 pl. (text n.c.; marg. wormholes in all vol., clear marg. damp stains in vol. II-V-VI, some foxing, staining to the begin. of vol. V-VI, tear with lack to upper corner of half title of vol. V and first ff. fold.).

Contemp. marbled sheep, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, red sprinkled edges (scratches, head of vol. VI lacking, sm. lack to the tail of vol. III, restorations with cloth on front cover of vol. V).

First French ed. of the monumental "Medical dictionary" of Robert James (1703-1776). Complete with 66 fold. plates figuring anatomy, surgical instruments, surgical operations, etc.
Ref. Wellcome III:343. - Bibl. Walleriana 5112. - Garrison & Morton 6799. - Conlon 46:579. - Cioranescu 2419 (Diderot).
Prov. Alain Brieux bookshop, Paris (mod. label).
Joined: Hippocrates; Galenus, Claudius - Operum Hippocratis coi, et Galeni [...]. Paris, A. Pralard, 1679. 6 (of 13), vol. folio (cancels on dates of vol. IV-VI-VII-XIII, title vol. IX dated 1689; some foxing, light dampstaining - large & in half vol. VI -, a few pp. browned in vol. IX). Contemp. marbled calf (scratches, traces of use, front joint of vol. VI partly split, front cover of vol. XI repaired). Vol. IV-VI-VII-IX-X-XIII of the first ed. by René Chartier of Hippocrates & Galenus works (rev. by F. Blondel and A. Le Moine). Parallel texts Latin-Greek. Medallion portraits of Hippocrates and Galenus on vol. VII title. Ref. Wellcome III:269 ("Majority of t.ps. bear date 1639 covered with cancel. Vol. IX however, is dated 1689 (i.e. 1679) and vol. I, X, and XII have date printed 1679"). (12 vol.)