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LARREY, Dominique Jean, Baron (1766-1842). Collection of 13 medical pamphlets by Baron Larrey, all FIRST EDITIONS, bound in one volume, red quarter hard-grain morocco, with matching chemise and slipcase, from his own library. Paris, Udine, Cairo and Naples: 1797-1838. Contents : 1. Remarques sur la constitution physique des Arabes . Extrait des Comptes rendus des sances de l'Acadmie des Sciences, sance du 4 juin 1838. Proof copy, signed by Larrey with his initials, with extensive annotations and corrections in his hand. 2. Mmoire sur le cholra-morbus . Paris: J.-B. Ballire, 1831. Signed by Larrey with his initials. Wellcome III, p. 452. 3. Copie d'un mmoire sur le cholera-morbus, envoy Saint-Ptersbourg en janvier 1831, pour le concours relativ a cette maladie pidmique . Paris: Imprimerie de Demonville, 2 mai 1831. Signed by Larrey with his initials. 4. Considrations sur la fivre jaune . Paris: Compre jeune, 1821. Signed by Larrey. 5. Notice sur la syphilis . Extrait des Mmoires de mdecine, de chirurgie et de pharmacie militaires, volume XXXII. Paris: Imprimerie de Madame Huzard (ne Vallat la Chapelle), 1832. Signed by Larrey with his initials. 6. Notice sur l'pilepsie, suivie de plusieurs observations sur les lsions des os du crne qui peuvent dterminer cette maladie . Pp. 257-282 extracted from Rvue mdicale , vol. VIII, juillet 1822. Signed by Larrey with his initials. 7. Metodo per la cura del morbo epizootico regnante e per la preservazione dalla stesso del cittadino . Translated from French into Italian by G.B. Zambelli. Udine: Marco Gallici, 1797. Signed by Larrey with his initials. 8. Chirurgie . Extrait de l'Encyclopdie moderne. Volume VI, page 601. 9. Notice sur quelques phnomnes pathologiques observs dans la lsion des nerfs, et dans leur cicatrisation . Extrait de la Revue mdicale franaise et trangre, et Journal de clinique de l'Htel-Dieu et de la Charit de Paris, mars 1824. One hand-colored lithographed plate. Signed by Larrey with his initials. 10. Mmoire sur l'ophtalmie regnante en gypte . Cairo: Imprimerie nationale, An IX [1800/1801]. Signed by Larrey. Larrey was the first to identify the contagiousness of trachoma, which he observed during the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt. The Imprimerie nationale at Cairo, founded by Napoleon, was the first press established in Egypt, and Larrey's pamphlet was one of the first works printed in the Muslim east. Garrison-Morton 5837; Osler 3161; Norman 1279. 11. Note sur l'appareil inamovible . Extrait des Mmoires de mdicine, de chirurgie et de pharmacie militaires, tome XLV. One folding engraved plate signed "M r Porinet del. et sc." Proof copy, with extensive corrections in Larrey's hand. 12. Mmoire sur les amputations des membres la suite des coups de feu . Paris: Du Pont, An V.--1797. Signed by Hippolyte Larrey (1808-1985), son of the author. Larrey's first publication, his doctoral thesis written shortly after he was appointed professor at the l'Hpital militaire d'instruction du Val-de-Grce, and based on his already considerble experience as a military surgeon. Wellcome III, p. 451; Norman 1278. 13. Descrizione dell' incendio de Mosca . Naples: Da' Torchi dei Porcelli, 1832. Larrey was chief surgeon to the Grande arme of Napoleon, who characterized him as "the most virtuous man I have known." He accompanied Napoleon to Egypt, where he pioneered in the observation of tropical diseases, and on the Russian campaign, of which he left an eye-witness account.