[MEDICINE] - DIONIS - Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden [...] - Paris ; Veuve d'Houri, 1777 - 1 volume In-8° - Portrait frontispiece of the author, 1 folding plate of the royal garden, 16 plates out of text (of which 1 folding) and 61 figures engraved in the text, some of them on full page - Binding of the period marbled fawn basane (3 corners dull, (3 corners dull, small beginning of cracks in the rubbed jaws) - Spine with decorated nerves (upper headband damaged with lack of leather in the 1st box, 1 small tear in the lower headband) - Title page in tan morocco - Red edges - Handwritten mention in the 3rd white guard: Erdeven, signature and ex-libris stamp (illegible) at the bottom of page 1 - Good copy.

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