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450 - JAMES, Robert Dictionnaire universel de médecine, de chirurgie, de chymie, de botanique, d'anatomie, de pharmacie, d'histoire naturelle, &c. [...]. Traduit de l'anglois de M. James, par Mrs Diderot, Eidous et Toussaint. Revu, corrigé & augmenté par M. Julien Busson [...]. Paris Briasson, David l'aîné, Durand 1746-1748 6 vol., folio; 60 (of 67) pl. (pl. 5 and 11 in vol. 2, pl. 2 and 3 in vol. 4, pl. 4, 5 and 9 missing, text n.c., some spotting). Contemp. marbled sheep, spines with raised bands and later title labels, red edges (some sm. restorations to spines, joints split or starting to split, corners bumped, some light rubbing). First French ed. of the monumental "Medical dictionary" of Robert James (1703-1776). Ill. with 60 plates (on 58 ff.) figuring anatomy, surgical instruments, surgical operations, etc. Ref. Wellcome III:343. - Bibl. Walleriana 5112. - Garrison & Morton 6799. - Conlon 46:579. - Cioranescu 2419 (Diderot).
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JAMES, Robert Dictionnaire universel de médecine, de chirurgie, de chymie, de botanique, d'anatomie, de pharmacie, d'histoire naturelle, &c. [...]. Traduit de l'anglois de M. James, par Mrs Diderot, Eidous et Toussaint. Revu, corrigé & augmenté par M. Julien Busson [...]. Paris Briasson, David l'aîné, Durand 1746-1748 6 vol., folio; 60 (of 67) pl. (pl. 5 and 11 in vol. 2, pl. 2 and 3 in vol. 4, pl. 4, 5 and 9 missing, text n.c., some spotting). Contemp. marbled sheep, spines with raised bands and later title labels, red edges (some sm. restorations to spines, joints split or starting to split, corners bumped, some light rubbing). First French ed. of the monumental "Medical dictionary" of Robert James (1703-1776). Ill. with 60 plates (on 58 ff.) figuring anatomy, surgical instruments, surgical operations, etc. Ref. Wellcome III:343. - Bibl. Walleriana 5112. - Garrison & Morton 6799. - Conlon 46:579. - Cioranescu 2419 (Diderot).
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