[QUESNAY (François)] : History of the origin... - Lot 285 - Richard Maison de ventes

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[QUESNAY (François)] : History of the origin... - Lot 285 - Richard Maison de ventes
[QUESNAY (François)] : History of the origin and progress of surgery in France. Paris, Huart & Moreau, 1749. One volume. 19 by 25,5 cm. (4)-XXIV-408-pp. [385] to 535 + 4 portraits h.t. Full contemporary basane, spine with 5 ornate bands. Heads and hinges skillfully restored. A crack of 4 cm on the top of the upper hinge. Some scattered foxing. 4 vignettes in-text. Pp. [385] to 524 : Pieces to serve as proofs for critical and historical researches on the origin, the various states and the progress of surgery in France. Pp. [525] to 616: Index funereus chirurgorum Parisiensium, ab anno 1315 ad annum 1729 []. 2nd edition (E.O.: 1744). François Quesnay was a renowned surgeon, physician to Madame de Pompadour and the Dauphin, before becoming the founder of political economy with Adam Smith. "The illustration, engraved in intaglio after Humblot, is composed of 4 portraits out of text of Lanfranc, Jean Pitard, Guillaume Vavasseur and Ambroise Paré by Ravenet, a title vignette, 4 headers and 4 initials by Aveline, Guélard and Sornique. [...]. Quesnay's Recherches sur la chirurgie en France is a very remarkable book by the way it is conceived, and by the considerable number of facts that are recorded in it." (I.N.E.D.).
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