Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
LARREY, DOMINIQUE-JEAN. Clinique Chirurgicale, exercée particulièrement dans les Camps et Hôpitaux Militaires depuis 1792 jusqu'en 1829. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1. viii, xix, [1], 491, [1]; vii, [1], 560; vii, [1], 671, [1] pages, including half-titles. Volumes 1-3. With atlas containing letterpress half-title and title and 30 engraved plates. Together, 4 volumes. 8vo, text volumes 202x130 mm, in 19th-century 1/4 sheep, worn, Volume 3 front hinge cracked, intermittent and occasionally heavy toning and foxing; atlas 278x163 mm, in original wrappers, backstrip missing, covers loose, first several plates dampstained in lower outer corner. 19th-century armorial bookplates of William Gordon Esqr. of Fyvie. Paris: Gabon, November 1829 [atlas front wrapper dated 1830]

Additional Details

first edition of a collection of cases spanning Larrey's career as a military surgeon; 2 further text volumes and another atlas were published in 1832-36. Norman 1282.