Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 114

Unsold
Estimate: $ 450 - $ 650
Pugnet, Jean-François-Xavier (1765-1846)
Mémoires sur les Fièvres de Mauvais Caractère du Levant et des Antilles.

Lyon: Reymann & Paris: Brunot, & la Veuve Perisse, 1804.

First edition, octavo, a8, A-P8, Q7, R-Z8, Aa-Bb8; illustrated with hand-colored folding plate, bound in later half red morocco and decorated paper boards, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.

Pugnet was Napoleon's chief physician in Egypt, Syria, and Said, serving later a head of public health on the island of St. Lucie.