Live veiling - Lot 1113
[Medicine - Anatomy]
Desmographie ou Description des ligamens du corps humain. Avec figures.
Paris, Durand, 1752
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Beschrijving lot
8vo: [4]-xvi-144 pp. (min. spotting).
Contemp. mottled calf (some sm. repairs), gilt orn. spine (repaired), red edges. Good copy.
First French translation 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 pl.
Ref. Blake 485. - Conlon 52:1078. - Barbier I:910.
Prov. "E.A.L. Habener 1831" (ms. entry on front flyleaf).