ACADÉMIE ROYALE DE CHIRURGIE, PARIS. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Chirurgie.
89 engraved plates (12 folding). Five vols. Large 4to, early 19th century calf, sides & spines nicely gilt, red & green morocco lettering pieces on spines. Paris: 1769-87. Reprint of this great collection of medical texts which had originally been published starting in 1743 and very quickly went out of print. One finds here memoirs of the most important French doctors and surgeons of the time including: R.J. Croissant de Garengeot, F. de la Peyronie (Garrison-Morton 4163"La Peyronie's disease"), A. Levret, H.F. Le Dran (Garrison-Morton 2607"Important discussion on cancer"), J.L. Petit, F. Quesnay, etc. A very fine and pretty set, from the library of François-Joseph Moreau (1789-1862), the well-known obstetrician-gynecologist and a highly regarded professor of these subjects (see Hirsch, IV, p. 260). His name is stamped at the foot of each volume. With his bookplate.
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