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Joseph Lieutaud was a famous doctor of his time and the first doctor of Louis XV. He was very interested in teaching and castigated doctors or scientists who did not place observation and practice before any theory or speculation.
Anatomical essays work like a textbook, an index pointing to each part of the body. Its particularity consists in the sharpness of its observation -
Mr. Lieutaud - Anatomical Essays - 1742
Good condition of the binding, work in its period full brown leather, binding nicely restored, ornate spine, red-tinted edges, gilt titling -
Good condition inside, small wormhole on the first pages, light waterstaining on the boards, pretty bands, beautiful initials, tailpieces, 6 superb folding plates in fine, marbled flyleaves, manuscript ex libris -
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