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‎Encyclopdie des Sciences Mdicales; ... Sixime division. BIOGRAPHIE MEDICALE [par ordre chronologique, d''aprs Daniel LeClerc, Eloy, etc. mise dans un nouvel ordre, revue et complete]. ‎

‎Paris, Au Bureau de l'Encyclopdie, 1840-1841. 2 volumes, vii, 560; [iv], 950 pp. 8vo (14 x 22 cm.). Recent 3/4 dark brown morocco, marbled boards, spines gilt lettered.‎

‎ The very rare original edition. ". Chronological arranged with ample bibliographical data, this work gives the biographies of a great number of famous and lesser known physicians of all nations between 1526 and 1813. In 1855 the work was reissued with a new title-page only. Garrison & Morton 6712; Garrison, "Sources of Medical Biography", p. 699: "...Bayle & Thillaye, although alphabetized only in the index, is the handiest of all, and was always on Osler's desk"; "... dictionnaire biobibliographique, qui, ... compte nanmoins parmi les travaux qu'il faut connaitre et possder une bibliothque universitaire"(Dr. A. Hahn). --(Owing to the quality of the paper, scattered foxing and/or light browning). ‎