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Traité Des Maladies Vénériennes,Par M. Fabre, Professeur des Écoles de Chirurgie, ancien Prévôt, Commissaire pour les Extraits de l'Académie, &c. Quatrième Édition, Revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'Auteur : On y a joint une Table analytique des Matières, contenant le précis de chaque Chapitre. Translated: Treatise On Venereal Diseases, By Mr. Fabre, Professor of the Schools of Surgery, former Provost, Commissioner for the Abstracts of the Academy, etc. Fourth Edition, Revised, corrected, and enlarged by the Author: To this has been added an analytical Table of Contents, containing a summary of each Chapter. French Language.
Fabre, M. · Paris
- Author
- Fabre, M.
- Date
- 1795
- Place
- Paris
- Publisher
- P. Fr. Didot
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 12mo.(4.5" x 7.25") xvi + 576 pp. Full brown mottled calf. Spine with five (faded) gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to second compartment, a single gilt floral device centered to all others with fancy gilt rule frames. All edges reddened, with Tufts Med Library stamps to top and fore-edge of text block. Several bookplates to front pastedown, the most recent from Tufts College Medical Dental School Library. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss, remnants of shelf label to foot, both joints split, with small loss, boards held with cords. Extremities rubbed, scuffed with small bits of loss, both boards with small spots of loss of leather (see pic).
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.9553
"Traité Des Maladies Vénériennes,Par M. Fabre, Professeur des Écoles de Chirurgie, ancien Prévôt, Commissaire pour les Extraits de l'Académie," &c. Quatrième Édition, Revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'Auteur : On y a joint une Table analytique des Matières, contenant le précis de chaque Chapitre.
Translated: "Treatise On Venereal Diseases, By Mr. Fabre, Professor of the Schools of Surgery, former Provost, Commissioner for the Abstracts of the Academy," etc. Fourth Edition, Revised, corrected, and enlarged by the Author: To this has been added an analytical Table of Contents, containing a summary of each Chapter. French Language.
Traité des Maladies Vénériennes by M. Fabre, Fourth Edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged by the author. Published in Paris by P. Fr. Didot in 1795, this French-language medical work provides an extensive 18th-century treatment of venereal diseases, with an analytical table summarizing the contents of each chapter.
12mo. (4.5" x 7.25"). xvi + 576 pp. Bound in full brown mottled calf with five gilt-decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to the second compartment, and floral gilt devices with decorative rule frames. All edges reddened.
The book bears Tufts Medical Library stamps to the top and fore-edge of the text block, along with several bookplates on the front pastedown, including a later bookplate from Tufts College Medical Dental School Library.
Condition: Edgewear with bumped and rubbed corners and loss to the tips. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss, with remnants of a shelf label at the foot. Both joints are split with some loss; boards remain held by cords. Extremities are rubbed and scuffed, with small areas of leather loss to both boards. A fascinating example of late 18th-century French medical literature with institutional medical-library provenance.
Condition
Good
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