SALE OF OLD BOOKS - MEDICINE, GEOGRAPHY - UNIFORMS

BOOK SALE DECEMBER 22, 2021 2pm

Public exhibition :

Tuesday, December 21, 10am-6pm

Wednesday December 22, 10am-12pm

OLD BOOKS - MEDICINE - GEOGRAPHY - RELIGION - MILITARIA - EMPIRE - WATERCOLOUR - REGIONALISM - LITERATURE

Antique books from the 16th to the 19th century, most of which concern medicine; Norman regionalism is also well represented.

In the medical field, we note several manuscripts, including two exceptional pieces: the collection of visits and prescriptions of the physician Hugues de Salins at the hospital of Beaune from 1661 to 1663; and the set of detailed notes presented by the Parisian surgeon Delaulne, from 1745 to 1770, to his illustrious patient Nicolas-Charles de Malon de Bercy. Prestigious sources attract attention: J.-N. Corvisart, Bachasson de Montalivet, respectively physician and Minister of the Interior of Napoleon I; Traité de la phtisie by Raulin with the arms of Amelot de Chaillou; a splendid copy of Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris (1788) with the arms of Pius VI; Semaine sainte with the arms of the Princess Palatine; Mémoires de chirurgie militaire by D.-J. Larrey bearing the author's signature; a tribute copy bound in green morocco of the Abrégé de l'art des accouchemens by Madame Le Boursier du Coudray, and another copy testifying to her passage in Lille and her teaching method...

Numerous works deal with various medical subjects, in particular the following areas hospital history and hospitals, including descriptions of the Invalides by Le Jeune de Boullencourt (1683) and by Perau (1756), obstetrics, the plague of 1720-1721, wounds caused by firearms; the history of the discipline is illustrated in particular by an original edition of the first Western work dealing with Egyptian medicine, Alpinus' De Medicina Aegyptiorum (1591).

Lazare Rivière's Opera medica (1672) comes from the Abbey of the Ste-Trinité in Fécamp, and Normandy is represented by a number of general works such as Du Moulin's Histoire générale de Normandie (first edition, 1631); the Dieppe region is best covered, with in particular Les Antiquitez et chroniques de la ville de Dieppe by Asseline, 1874, a copy of Philippe d'Orléans' Count of Paris, Frissard's folio on the town's theater (1826), several early works on the port, the baths, and the important Recueil des édits en faveur des habitants de Dieppe (1700).

At the beginning of the sale, about thirty lots of 19th and 20th century books will be presented, in particular literature, including five first editions of works by Emile Zola, and thefirst edition (1831) of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris; and a selection of works on Ermenonville, including a copy of Stanislas de Girardin's Itinéraire des jardins, given by the author to the Countess Foy.

EXPERTS OF THE SALE :

Ludovic MIRAN

Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne

Tel : + 33 06 07 17 37 20

Lot 1 to 261

Danyela PETITOT

Member of the French Union of Professional Experts

Tel : +33 01 45 67 42 35

Lot 262 to 361