LE CAT (Claude-Nicolas). Cours abrégé d'ostéologie. Rouen, V - Lot 225

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LE CAT (Claude-Nicolas). Cours abrégé d'ostéologie. Rouen, V - Lot 225
LE CAT (Claude-Nicolas). Cours abrégé d'ostéologie. Rouen, Veuve Besongne, 1767. In-8 marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, triple gilt fillet framing the boards (period binding). Covers and corners worn. Fine engraved allegorical vignette to title. Complete with the large folding plate in fine (creased, a few tears but not missing). Light spotting. Rare first edition of this treatise by the famous Rouen physician and surgeon Claude Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768), to whom we also owe the Traité des sens. He settled in Rouen in 1729 as surgeon to his patron Archbishop La Vergne de Tressan, and became chief surgeon of the Hôtel-Dieu de Rouen in 1731, where he established a dissection amphitheater in March 1736. Label from the A. Lestringant bookshop, Rouen. Lestringant, Rouen. Ex-libris JM.
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