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731 - ADELON, Nicolas Philibert, *Physiologie de l'homme*. No place [c. 1830]. In-12: [58] pp. + numerous blank folios, brown ink on bluish laid paper (slightly foxed). Fawn-colored speckled sheepskin from the publisher’s original binding, ribbed spine, red edges (rubbed, upper joint split, corners worn, traces of title label). Handwritten copy of excerpts—sometimes summaries—from a work published in Paris (1823; 2nd ed., 1831). Followed by an unfinished summary, in the same hand: “General and Comparative Physiology. By M. de Blainville. (1829)” (7 pp.). Enclosed, in the same format, as a handwritten copy of the title page, in another hand: “History of Famous Hanged Men [sic], Wicked Men, Burned Men, etc. [...]. Volume One. In Paris, at all novelty shops, 1817.” (Severe water damage at the corner of the tail end, stains). Binder made of recycled paper from the volume (very worn, top cover detached, spine undone, paper missing). (2 vols.)
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ADELON, Nicolas Philibert, *Physiologie de l'homme*. No place [c. 1830]. In-12: [58] pp. + numerous blank folios, brown ink on bluish laid paper (slightly foxed). Fawn-colored speckled sheepskin from the publisher’s original binding, ribbed spine, red edges (rubbed, upper joint split, corners worn, traces of title label). Handwritten copy of excerpts—sometimes summaries—from a work published in Paris (1823; 2nd ed., 1831). Followed by an unfinished summary, in the same hand: “General and Comparative Physiology. By M. de Blainville. (1829)” (7 pp.). Enclosed, in the same format, as a handwritten copy of the title page, in another hand: “History of Famous Hanged Men [sic], Wicked Men, Burned Men, etc. [...]. Volume One. In Paris, at all novelty shops, 1817.” (Severe water damage at the corner of the tail end, stains). Binder made of recycled paper from the volume (very worn, top cover detached, spine undone, paper missing). (2 vols.)
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