Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal
Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
“Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal” (Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden)
By Dionis, First Surgeon to Mesdames Les Dauphines
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous out-of-text plates and engravings in the text, mostly depicting surgical tools used in operations, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and his scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
Frontispiece portrait of Dionis opposite another engraving depicting a public dissection in an amphitheater at the opening of the work.
The leather binding is original, but the corners are very rubbed, and the top of the headband is missing. The spine is cracked throughout.
The interior is fresh.
Dimensions: In-8: 12.5x19 cm - 920 pages
Beautiful 18th-century book
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté - The art of procreating sexes at will
By Millot - With illustrated plates
Antique book from 1802 (Year X of the Republic) - Third edition
The author explains how to procreate boys and girls, and gives his recipes for treating sterility and malformations...
Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831
Anatomy of Man
Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography
By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob
Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé
From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation
Published in 1866
Lithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Manual of the Naturalist Preparer followed by a Treaty of Embalmings
by BOITARD - Book of 1853
5 fold-out plates at the end of the volume with beautiful engravings
Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples
Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs
By Nicolas Lemery
An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition
La Botanique d'Andrée by Émilie Carpentier
Circa 1885
Splendid publisher’s binding with plates by Albert Souze
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1749
Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates
The Norwich Jubilee (1859) – First Edition Printed on Mummy Paper
A book printed on pages made from Egyptian mummy wrappings
First edition (1859) of The Norwich Jubilee printed on mummy paper.
Re-bound at a later date in full red cloth (percaline), complete with its folding color map and lithographs. With marbled edges. Originally issued in leather, cloth, or paper covers/wrappers.
This book traces the festivities of the bicentenary of Norwich in 1859 through its speeches, parades and local archives.
A 19th-century bibliophilic curiosity
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Man - Anatomical chart that can be disassembled
By Fernand Nathan Editeur publisher
Coloured chart with movable, cut-out and superimposed leaves
There are defects on the superimposed boards; the outer board, which was the man's torso, is missing, as are the lungs, which were above the heart. The left hand is missing, the arm being torn.
Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu
Anthropology - End of the XIXth century
20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé
Butterflies - Natural History of France
Musée scolaire DEYROLLE - Original Edition of 1886 by Berce
Illustrated with 27 plates including 26 in colors - By Berce
Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris
Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank
Le corps de l'Homme
Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves
By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs
No date, circa 1900
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal
Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
