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ÉLOY, NICOLAS-FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH. Dictionnaire Historique de la Médecine Ancienne et Moderne. Engraved allegorical frontispiece in Volume 1 (lightly offsetting onto title). Half-titles. 4 volumes. 4to, early 19th-century 1/2 vellum with author and title lettered in ink on spines; some toning and minor marginal foxing. Mons: H. Hoyois, 1778
"Earliest exhaustive collection of medical biographies. The first edition of this work appeared in 1755; the above edition is the most useful"--Garrison-Morton 6704. Fulton, The Great Medical Bibliographers, pages 49-51 ("the prototype upon which all subsequent medical biobibliographies were modeled").
