Paris, Pymalion Olivier Perrin, (1978). 430, [iv] pp. 4to (21 x 28 cm.). Original gilt decorated publisher's buckram with coloured dust-jacket (jackrt slightly damages along upper and lower edge). With numerous illustrations and plates of which 8 finely coloured.
A nice clean copy and a magnificent "history of medicine" told from old medical books and their illustrations preserved in the library of the Paris facult de Mdicine. One of the best histories from the pont of view of the great illustrated medical books. Orriginaly published by Perrin in 1962. Garrison & Morton 6786.7.