Réfléxions sur les playes, ou La Méthode de procéder à leur curation, suivant les principes modernes, la structure naturelle des parties, & leurs mouvemens méchaniques [...]. Avec des remarques des plus grands maîtres de l'art [...] touchant les playes des trois ventres.

Sm. 8vo: [16]-576-[2] pp.

Contemp. red morocco, boards decorated with a large gilt dentelle designed with pointillé, fillet and sm. tools, armorial plate at the centre, gold-tooled spine on raised bands, black title-label, a.e.g. (corners sl. used). Nice copy.

First edition. Charles François Faudacq (b. 1787) studied medicine in Paris under Petit and Morand, and came back to Namur, his homeland, to practise.
Ref. Bibl. Walleriana 2958. - Wellcome III:12. - Eloy II:199.
Prov. Georges Mareschal de Bièvre (1658-1736), born in Calais, chief surgeon at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, first surgeon to King Louis XIV, who ennobled him in 1707, and then to Louis XV, founder of the Académie Royale de Chirurgie in 1731 (gilt coat of arms: only copy quoted and reproduced by Olivier-Hermal 572).