Lot n° 155
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LARREY (Dominique-Jean). Memoirs of military surgery and cam - Lot 155
LARREY (Dominique-Jean). Memoirs of military surgery and campaigns. Paris, J. Smith, 1812-1817. Four vol. in-8, contemporary black half-basin, smooth spine decorated, gilt roulette bordering the boards (binding rubbed, scattered browning, wetness).
First edition of the memoirs of Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766-1842), brilliant surgeon who took part in all the campaigns of Napoleon I. It is illustrated with 17 plates, including a plan.
A copy bearing the author's signature on a fragment of manuscript leaf pasted at the head of volume 1, where the promise of the dispatch to the subscriber of the fifth volume, announced in press at the time, is formulated: this one only appeared in 1841, under the title of "Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages".
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