astruc john (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Brown hardback leather cover. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Worn condition. Cover worn with upper board detached. Leather missing from lower board. Prelims damaged, but content in overall good condition. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 200mm x 120mm (8" x 5"). xxx, 404pp; 338pp. 'Together with abstract of the lives of the authors who have wrote on those diseases and a list of their works.'. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

2 Volumes in one. xiv + (18) + 404pp & 338pp. Contemporary leather, 7 raised bands to spine. Gilt border tooling to boards and spine compartments. Covered at some point in a leather varnish, which is chipped and perished, especially to the spine, revealing the softer leather beneath. Binding is otherwise tight and Very Good. Some age toning to the endpapers. Small bookseller's label to front paste down. Previous owner's ex libris stamp to f.f.e.p. Provenance: FWF Purcell M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. specialist in venereal disease and practicing at the Cape in the 1950s and 60s. Janet Doe writes of this volume and its author: "[H]is first major publicationone of the reasons for his coming to Parisappeared, the De morbis venereis and it was an immediate success. In spite of his confusing syphilis and gonorrheaas did everyone else for another hundred years he did clear the field of much of the charlatanism and ignorance which had existed previously, and his history of syphilis, the result of long and painstaking research, was a prodigy of wide reading and reasoning. The book became authoritative almost at once, subsequently going through many editions and being translated into French, English, German, and Spanish." - Doe: Jean Astruc Doe lists previous English editions as: 60. An abstract of Dr. Astruc's book, De morbis venereis. [116 pp.] In: John Armstrong. A Synopsis of the history and cure of venereal diseases. London, 1737,pp. 404-519. 61. A treatise of the venereal disease in six books. trans, by Wm. Barrowby. London, 1737. 2 vols. The present volume appears at no 62 in the author's bibliography. JANET DOE. Jean Astruc (1684-1766): A Biographical and Bibliographical Study. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, April, 1960, Vol. 15, No. 2 (April, 1960), pp. 184-197.

full leather, spine lighter. Zustand: VG for age. 1st English. Astruc is billed as 'Physician to his present Majesty the King of France' and this 'Translated from the last Latin Edition printed in Paris' (but no translator given); the full title text continues: 'As also of the Nature, Cause and Cure of all Veneral Diseases whether Local or Universal. Together with a short Abstract of the Lives of the Authors who have wrote on those Diseases, and a List of their Works'. xiv+(18, Advertisement and contents)+404+338 (no ills but 11 Chinese characters pp.284-5 Vol.2); front pastedown has ex-libris plate of Robert Mowbray ('Member of the National Book League'), No major internal faults, some creasing to endpapers and front blank fly, endpapers have some browing to edges offset from facing binding, top edge inevitably dust darkened. Binding firm and undamaged but rubbing to edges and in a few places to boards, light panelled spine has good gilt-on-red label, rubbed to top and joints, esp.front joint, with some surface ageing. Very scarce. Size: 22 cms x 27 Cms.

Brown hardback leather cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition in English. Good condition. Hinges strengthened with new eps. Page edges browning. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). viii, 200pp + plate. Fold-out copper-plate. 'Adorned with a copper-plate, describing a new instrument, for performing the operation on the fistula of the anus, when it is incomplete. Invented by John Freke.' The volume was originally written in Latin.