Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 172
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Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
PETIT, JEAN-LOUIS. Traité des Maladies des Os . . . Nouvelle Édition revue & augmentée d'un Discours Historique sur cet Ouvrage. 2 folding woodcut plates; numerous text illustrations. 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrips, Volume 1 front joint cracked. Paris: P.-G. Cavellier, 1775

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Work on bone diseases first published in 1705, containing the first account of osteomalacia and of clot formation in arteries following ligation. Garrison-Morton 4300 (original edition).