?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CORVISART DES MARETS, JEAN-NICOLAS, Baron. Essai sur les Maladies et les Lésions Organiques du Coeur et des Gros Vaisseaux. lvi, 484, [1] pages, including half-title and errata leaf. 8vo, mid-19th-century 1/4 black leather gilt, spine scuffed, joints worn; some browning or foxing. Stamp of the French physician Joseph-Marie-Jules Parrot (1829-83) on title; bookplate of Irving Addison Beck, M.D. (1911-98). Paris, 1806
first edition. "Corvisart . . . provided the first adequate classification of the symptoms of heart disease, distinguished between between functional and organic disturbances of the heart, and was the first to divide the course of heart failure into three stages"--Norman 518. Bedford 360; Garrison-Morton 2737.
