Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 431

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
RAYER, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS-OLIVE. Traité des Maladies de la Peau . . . Atlas.<> 26 hand-colored engraved plates. Half-title. 4to, contemporary 1/4 sheep, spine rubbed; crack along inner plate mark of plate 11. Paris, 1835

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Plate volume only of the enlarged second edition. "A classic summary of dermatological literature of the period. Rayer first described adenoma sebaceum and xanthoma multiplex. He was the first to differentiate between acute and chronic eczema"--Garrison-Morton 3989 (1826-27 original edition).<