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by the late Mr. Philippe HECQUET
New edition, revised, corrected on the Author's Manuscript and augmented with Notes by M. BOUDON, Doctor of Medicine.
Followed by: Life of M. Hecquet, Doctor Regent and former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. With a catalog raisonné of his works. By M. de SAINT-MARC. Second edition, enlarged and corrected.
3 volumes in-12 (approx. 9.5 x 17 cm), full time bindings in calfskin. Back with raised bands and boxes decorated with gilded irons. XXVI + 440, 524 and 320 + 218 pages.
Very complete copy of the frontispiece to volume I representing the author.
Solid and clean bindings, slight rubbing and wear, small worm galleries, damaged or missing crowns, perfect stitching, slightly browned paper.
Paris, at Clouiser, David, Durand and Damonneville, 1742 67585901
