[MEDICINE]. [Portraits des docteurs en médècine et chirurgie]. [Paris, ca 1834.
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[MEDICINE]. [Portraits des docteurs en médècine et chirurgie]. [Paris, ca 1834.

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[MEDICINE]. [Portraits des docteurs en médècine et chirurgie]. [Paris, ca 1834.

Square 8o (215 x 150 mm). 84 engraved portraits by Ambroise Tardieu or C.L.F. Panckoucke, interleaved throughout with blank leaves. (Some scattered pale foxing.) 19th-century red morocco-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered.

A fine volume of portraits of famous physicians and surgeons from antiquity to the point of publication. The first depicted is Asclépiade, the last Geoffrey St. Hilaire. Among the others are Astruc, Barthez, Bichat, Boerhaave, Caldini, Camper, Cardanus, Chauliac, Corvisart, Fernel, Galen, Gall, Haller, Hippocrates, Laennec, Lamarck, Le Cat, Le Dran, Levret, Paré, Paracelsus, Petit, Portal, Tiedemann and Winslow. A plate at the beginning shows moth sides of a medical medal for 1824.