Oct 18, 2005 - Sale 2052

Sale 2052 - Lot 8

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ALIBERT, JEAN-LOUIS-MARIE. Clinique de l'Hôpital Saint-Louis; ou, Traité Complet des Maladies de la Peau, contenant la Description de ces Maladies. Hand-colored wood-engraved frontispiece showing Alibert's tree of dermatoses; 63 hand-colored stipple engraved plates. Half-title. Folio, 554x360 mm, contemporary 1/2 red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine ends damaged, backstrip and covers detached; marginal foxing throughout, dampstaining in lower outer corners through last third of volume, some plates elsewhere lightly browned and/or offset, plate 7 creased; institutional bookplate. Paris, 1833

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"The largest and most spectacular of the early classics of dermatology, with hand-coloured illustrations unsurpassed for their quality of execution. The illustrations are also the first on the subject in a French book. This book also contains the original description of mycosis fungoides"--Garrison-Morton 3986 (1806 original edition).