HARDY M A DE MONTMEJA M A Clinique Photographique de lHopit

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HARDY, M. A. & DE MONTMEJA, M. A. Clinique Photographique de l'Hopital Saint Louis. Wth 49 mounted photographs depicting patients afflicted with syphilis, eczema and many other skin diseases shown in graphic detail, approximately 35 of which are hand-colored; includes 5 microscopic studies. Albumen prints, 4x3 1/2 inches (11.4x8.8 cm.), with a printed caption and de Montmeja's credit on mount recto. 4to, 1/4 leather-backed marbled boards, edgewear; light foxing throughout, photographs generally very good to excellent. Paris: Librairie Chamerot et Lauwereyns, 1868

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from the collection of john wood.

A scarce medical title, and one of the earliest volumes to highlight original photographs. This copy with 49 photographs, not the 48 albumen prints in the standard Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire de Medecine.

BIUM suggests the extra plate is for "Pemphigus bulleux." Although the index does suggest 49 plates are called for, subsequently Hardy and Montmeja added twelve plates to the 2nd edition, for a total of 60 images.

In this copy the illustration for "Syphilides Vesiculeuse" is a study of a nude young woman, not the portrait of a middle-aged woman seen in other copies. Conversely, "Syphilide papuleuse lenticulaire" is not the young girl referenced in BIUM, but the older woman sometimes substituted for it.