Albertus Hallerus - Disputationes physico-medico...

Bindings in full stiff parchment still solid. Author, title and volume indication in gold on the spine. Red and blue sprayed edges. 1 vol: VOL. I: 1 white leaf, [7] including prelims and front., 248 (marg. repairs inf. pp 178-180 and 186-188; 7 plates bound-in); VOL. II: [2], 280 (1 bound plate), 1 white leaf 2 vol.: VOL. III: 1 white leaf, [2], 308 (4 bound plates); VOL. IV: 1 white leaf, [2], 218 (3 bound plates), 2 white leaves 3 vol.: VOL. V: 1 white leaf, [2], 295 (3 bound plates); VOL. VI: [2], 300 (7 bound plates), 1 white leaf 4 vol.: VOL. VII: 2 white leaves, 300 (5 bound plates), marginal stain that comes and goes at the beginning of the volume; VOL. VIII: [2], 208 (6 bound plates), 2 white leaves 5 vol.: VOL. IX: 2 white leaves, [3], 290 (4 bound plates); VOL. X: 2 white leaves, [3], 283 (7 bound plates) 1 white leaf, faded marginal stain that comes and goes. FIRST EDITION The work collects and selects important academic and scientific dissertations on medicine, physics, anatomy and surgery discussed at various European universities and academies. It constitutes a fundamental testimony to the scientific and medical progress of the eighteenth century, offering a view of anatomical and surgical knowledge before the modern scientific revolution. Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), anatomist, physiologist and botanist. Ten frontespieces, the first in two colors preceded by the half-title, each with an engraved portrait of the author. Numerous headers, tailpieces and initial capitals finely engraved. 42 anatomical plates not in the text, folded several times. Double ex libris applied to every flyleaf. Generally bearing foxing, often light; some leaves browned in the text. Nevertheless, a specimen in good conservation condition. Complete, rare and usable.

Estimación:€400

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