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454 - HECQUET, Philippe *The Banditry of Surgery, or Medicine Oppressed by the Banditry of Surgery*. Posthumous work [...]. Part One. [- The Plunder of Pharmacy [...]. Part Two]. Utrecht: Sisters of C.-G. Le Fèvre, 1738. 2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo: [2]-viii-32-214-[2]-110 pp. (small marginal tear without loss, repaired on title page; light soiling on the very first leaves; occasional spotting; very slight marginal stains on the last leaves). Contemporary marbled sheepskin, gilt-ornamented flat spine, marbled edges (rubbed, endcaps missing, corners worn, upper board gaping with flyleaf loosening, repaired with adhesive tape). Interior in good condition. First edition of two polemical works against surgeons and apothecaries, published posthumously, following the *Brigandage de la médecine* (1732). Ref. Blake 202. - Bibl. Walleriana 4178.
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HECQUET, Philippe *The Banditry of Surgery, or Medicine Oppressed by the Banditry of Surgery*. Posthumous work [...]. Part One. [- The Plunder of Pharmacy [...]. Part Two]. Utrecht: Sisters of C.-G. Le Fèvre, 1738. 2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo: [2]-viii-32-214-[2]-110 pp. (small marginal tear without loss, repaired on title page; light soiling on the very first leaves; occasional spotting; very slight marginal stains on the last leaves). Contemporary marbled sheepskin, gilt-ornamented flat spine, marbled edges (rubbed, endcaps missing, corners worn, upper board gaping with flyleaf loosening, repaired with adhesive tape). Interior in good condition. First edition of two polemical works against surgeons and apothecaries, published posthumously, following the *Brigandage de la médecine* (1732). Ref. Blake 202. - Bibl. Walleriana 4178.
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