Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 120

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LAENNEC, RENÉ-THÉOPHILE-HYACINTHE. Traité de l'Auscultation Médiate et des Maladies du Coeur . . . Seconde Édition, entièrement refondue. 4 uncolored double-page etched plates with aquatint showing 8 subjects, with good margins. Half-titles; erratum leaf at end of Volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, first volume in contemporary 1/4 morocco gilt, second bound to match in somewhat later 1/4 calf gilt, moderate wear; contents generally clean. Paris, 1826
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"In the first edition (1819), Laennec pursues the analytic method, giving the different signs elicited by percussion and auscultation, with the corresponding anatomic lesions . . . In the second edition (1826), the process is turned about and the method is synthetic, each disease being described in detail in respect of diagnosis, pathology, and (most intelligent) treatment, so that this edition is, in effect, the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written"--Garrison, History of Medicine, page 412. Garrison-Morton 2673 note; Norman 1255.
Bound at the end of the 2 volumes are 85 and 41 leaves, respectively, of contemporary manuscript commentary titled Notes et Additions de M.M. Mériadec Laennec et Andral. With the bookplate and signature of Dr. John Girdwood, and a 1921 2 1/2-page TLS to him from Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs analyzing the content of the manuscript additions. Jacobs concluded that they were copied with modifications and gaps from the notes by the younger Laennec and Andral published in the third and fourth editions of the Traité.