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HALLER, ALBRECHT VON.
Opuscula pathologica.
Lausanne, Bousquet, 1755. 8vo. In a nice full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities and previous owner's bookplate pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Upper outer corner of front free end-paper cut out. A fine copy. 304 pp. + 3 folded plates.
Reference : 60200
First edition in which Haller described histories and autopsy findings for a variety of diseases and conditions including pulmonary tuberculosis, suffocation, pleurisy, and various diseases of the pevis, uterus, ovaries and kidneys. Haller was one of the most imposing figures in the whole of medicine, besides being a superb bibliographer and the founder of medical bibliography. As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. Many apparently “new” discoveries of later times had already been discovered by Haller.
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2 book(s) with the same title
Albert de HALLER - [Berne 1708 - 1777] - Médecin et poète suisse
Reference : 34467
(1756)
Opuscula pathologica - Partim recusa partim inedita: Quibus Sectiones Cadaverum Potissimum continentur - Accedunt experimenta de Respiratione - Quarta parte aucta -
1756 Lausanne - Marc-Michel Bousquet et David - 1756 - 1 volume in8 de 304 pages - Reliure pleine basane d'époque - dos lisse orné de fleurons - mors fendus - coiffe supérieure arasée - coupes frottées - coins émoussés - Bon état intérieur -
Bien complet des trois planches dépliantes -
Opera minora emendata, aucta, et renovata. In 3 volumes: 1. Anatomica; ad partes corporis humani vitales, animales, naturales; 2. Ad generationem (part 1 & 2) ; 3. Accedunt opuscula pathologica aucta et recensa. (Vols. 2 and 3 are entitled: Operum Anatomici Argumenti Minorum).
Lausannæ (Lausanne), sumptibus Francisci Grasset, 1762-67-68, in-4to, XXII + 1 leaf + 608 p., 13 plates; VI + 311p. + 6 p. + p. 312-607 + 6 plates + 1 table; 388 p. + 17 plates, titles in red and black, first title with engr. medals (e.a. Haller's portrait), beautiful marbled endpaper, light mainly marginal waterstaining in last part of first vol., light browning of the paper, full calf bindings, red and green labels on spines, spines richly gilt, corners slightly scratched and bumped, small wormhole in one rear cover. Beautiful copy.
This work marks the beginning of scientific teratology. First edition, illustrated with altogether 36 (21 folding) engraved plates, complete. Haller himself esteemed this work as among his best productions. In fine contemporary full calf bindings. “The numerous plates contain his highly exact, clear, and striking representations of anatomical preparations” (Eimas). “With the many scientific corrections which Haller was able to present to anatomists, owing to his exact investigations and to his studies under Albinus, he was bound to make pictorial representations of anatomic preparations the main object of his care. His illustrations are therefore very numerous. They are very clear, vivid, highly exact, and artistic. The greater part of them had been scattered through his many writings and these were later collected by Haller himself under the title «Opera minora...». Haller himself esteemed this work and his «Icones» ... as among his best productions” (Choulant).Garrison-Morton 534.54 (citing part 3): “Reprints and updates Haller's earlier essays on various malformations. Placing it on a foundation of sound anatomical description”. Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates 889; Osler 1156; Choulant, Anatomic Illustration, p. 289-291; Lundsgaard 460; Bibliographia Halleriana, Verzeichnis der Schriften v. u. über Albrecht v. Haller 0336; Eales I/1417; Neu 1826; Wellcome III/199; Blake 196 and Waller 4014 (éd. 1763-68). Image disp.
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