Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine tirée des ouvrages périodiques tant François qu'Etrangers, avec plusieurs autres pièces rares & des remarques utiles et curieuses.
Selected Library of Medicine drawn from French and foreign periodicals, with several other rare items and useful and curious remarks
Complete Volume 16
By François PLANQUE - Original edition from 1761
Publisher: Chez D'Houry père, printer and bookseller to His Grace the Duke of Orléans, in Paris
665 pages + 10 engraved plates
Volume 8 is devoted to the following topics: Cancer, Caries, Carnosity, Catalepsy, Cataract, Cephalgia, Brain, Blood circulation, Heart.
Interior fresh and in very good condition - All red-tinted sections.
Full sheepskin binding of the period. Some wear to the corners and covers.
Format: Hardcover in-12: 17 x 10.5 cm
Beautiful fold-out engravings
Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu
Anthropology - End of the XIXth century
20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé
L’Herbier des Demoiselles (1857) – A Comprehensive Treatise on Botany
L’Herbier des Demoiselles (1857) – Complete Treatise on Botany
At a time when botany was considered the ultimate art of living, this book taught young women, known as demoiselles, how to collect plants, classify flowers, and understand the mysteries of nature with a unique sensitivity.
Illustrated with numerous vignettes, many of them romantic in nature.
By Edmond Audouit
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1749
Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
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.
De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
Le corps de l'Homme
Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves
By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs
No date, circa 1900
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1750
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Anatomie de L'Homme - circa 1845
Volume 4 Atlas: Apparatus of nutrition - Angelology - Organs of circulation and respiration
Followed by his Atlas in black and white
By Dr. Bourgery and illustrator Jacob
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
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.
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...
Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples
Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs
By Nicolas Lemery
An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition
Le Jardin des Plantes
Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum
By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851
A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
