Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LAENNEC, RENÉ-THÉOPHILE-HYACINTHE. De l'Auscultation Médiate; ou, Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur. 4 folding engraved plates with 8 subjects in Volume 1. [4], [vii]-xlviii, 456, [8]; xvi, 472 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 211x136 mm, original wrappers with publisher's ads on covers dated 1824 (except for Volume 2 rear cover supplied from later 19th-century work), spines darkened, chipped, and crudely reinforced with paper tape, joints partly cracked, occasional marginal foxing of text, stain in outer margin of last few text leaves in Volume 1, plates lightly offset, light foxing on last plate, Volume 2 half-title soiled; uncut. Paris: J.-A. Brosson & J.-S. Chaudé, 1819 [i. e., circa 1824]

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first edition, second(?) printing; a2 in Volume 1 uncancelled, but with "constat," in line 1 on verso. "Laennec's invention of the stethoscope, which he announced in his Treatise on mediate auscultation, provided the first adequate method of diagnosing diseases of the thorax, and represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Röntgen's X-rays"--Norman 1253. Garrison-Morton 2673, 3219, 3614; Printing and the Mind of Man 280.