LANNEC, Ren Thophile Hyacinthe (1781-1826). De l'auscultation mdiate ou trait du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, fond principalement sur ce nouveau moyen d'exploration . Paris: J.-A. Brosson and J.-S. Chaud, 1819. 2 volumes, 8 o (206 x 125 mm). Half-titles, fol. a*2 in vol. I cancelled, 4 folding engraved plates. Small manuscript correction, probably authorial, to p. 152, vol. I. (Minor marginal dampstain to first few leaves in vol. I, plates lightly foxed.) Contemporary half calf, green vellum corners, smooth spines gilt, edges sprinkled green (very minor wear to joints and extremities, inner hinges weak in vol. 2); folding calf-lined half calf chemises, matching two-compartment slipcase. Provenance : Mriadec Lannec (1797-1837), the author's cousin, editor of the third edition (1831) of De l'auscultation mdiate (author's presentation inscription dated September 1819 on title of volume I: "Patrueli fratri Meriad. Laennec quo vidit et quorum pars fecit, dedit R. T. Laennec..."); Dr. E. Bonamy of Le Grand Pressigny, Indre et Loire (loosely inserted autograph letter dated 11 March 1923, regarding his proposed sale of this copy); John Farquhar Fulton (1899-1960), neurophysiologist, medical book collector and bibliographer (inserted autograph letter dated 21 September 1924, addressed to Dr. William Syndey Thayer, requesting his opinion of the presentation inscription, with the latter's reply, confirming its authenticity; joined to these letters are 2 ALsS from Henry Burton Yardley to Fulton, dated 16 January and 22 January 1927, thanking Fulton for sending him a reproduction of the inscribed title-page of the present volume, describing a Lannec medal cut for the centenary of the author's death, and relaying news of Klebs, Osler's widow Lady Osler, and other members of the scientific book-collecting world). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF LAENNEC'S PATHBREAKING STUDY OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, second state, with cancel leaf a*2. Mriadec Lannec studied medicine under his cousin and later worked under his direction at the Facult de Mdecine; he completed his own thesis on auscultation in 1821. Garrison-Morton 2673, 3219, 3614; Grolier Medicine 57; Norman 1254. (2)
LANNEC, Ren Thophile Hyacinthe (1781-1826). De l'auscultation mdiate ou trait du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, fond principalement sur ce nouveau moyen d'exploration . Paris: J.-A. Brosson and J.-S. Chaud, 1819. 2 volumes, 8 o (206 x 125 mm). Half-titles, fol. a*2 in vol. I cancelled, 4 folding engraved plates. Small manuscript correction, probably authorial, to p. 152, vol. I. (Minor marginal dampstain to first few leaves in vol. I, plates lightly foxed.) Contemporary half calf, green vellum corners, smooth spines gilt, edges sprinkled green (very minor wear to joints and extremities, inner hinges weak in vol. 2); folding calf-lined half calf chemises, matching two-compartment slipcase. Provenance : Mriadec Lannec (1797-1837), the author's cousin, editor of the third edition (1831) of De l'auscultation mdiate (author's presentation inscription dated September 1819 on title of volume I: "Patrueli fratri Meriad. Laennec quo vidit et quorum pars fecit, dedit R. T. Laennec..."); Dr. E. Bonamy of Le Grand Pressigny, Indre et Loire (loosely inserted autograph letter dated 11 March 1923, regarding his proposed sale of this copy); John Farquhar Fulton (1899-1960), neurophysiologist, medical book collector and bibliographer (inserted autograph letter dated 21 September 1924, addressed to Dr. William Syndey Thayer, requesting his opinion of the presentation inscription, with the latter's reply, confirming its authenticity; joined to these letters are 2 ALsS from Henry Burton Yardley to Fulton, dated 16 January and 22 January 1927, thanking Fulton for sending him a reproduction of the inscribed title-page of the present volume, describing a Lannec medal cut for the centenary of the author's death, and relaying news of Klebs, Osler's widow Lady Osler, and other members of the scientific book-collecting world). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF LAENNEC'S PATHBREAKING STUDY OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, second state, with cancel leaf a*2. Mriadec Lannec studied medicine under his cousin and later worked under his direction at the Facult de Mdecine; he completed his own thesis on auscultation in 1821. Garrison-Morton 2673, 3219, 3614; Grolier Medicine 57; Norman 1254. (2)
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