LORRY, Anne Charles de (1726-1783)]. Tractatus de morbis cutaneis . Paris: P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1777. 4 o (247 x 190 mm). Contemporary marbled calf gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spine (some splitting to joints near spine ends). Provenance : M. Mitivi, Hospices Civils de Paris (prize binding with gilt-lettered lettering piece which reads: "Hospices Civils de Paris Anne 1817 prix M. Mitivi"). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN TEXT ON DERMATOLOGY, and the last major work on dermatology to be published in Latin. Lorry "attempted the classification of diseases on the basis of essential relations, their physiological, pathological, and etiological similarities" (Garrison-Morton 3983). Waller 6020; Wellcome III, p. 547; Norman 1392. [ With :] [LORRY, Anne Charles de]. De melancholia et morbis melancholicis . Paris: P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1765. 2 volumes, 8 o (217 x 137 mm). (Some very minor scattered foxing.) Contemporary mottled paper-backed boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION of Lorry's treatise on melancholia, in which he showed "how one could make use of the mind's influence on the body in curing melancholias" (Norman). Hunter-Macalpine, p. 736; Wellcome III, p. 547; Norman 1391. (2)
LORRY, Anne Charles de (1726-1783)]. Tractatus de morbis cutaneis . Paris: P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1777. 4 o (247 x 190 mm). Contemporary marbled calf gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spine (some splitting to joints near spine ends). Provenance : M. Mitivi, Hospices Civils de Paris (prize binding with gilt-lettered lettering piece which reads: "Hospices Civils de Paris Anne 1817 prix M. Mitivi"). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN TEXT ON DERMATOLOGY, and the last major work on dermatology to be published in Latin. Lorry "attempted the classification of diseases on the basis of essential relations, their physiological, pathological, and etiological similarities" (Garrison-Morton 3983). Waller 6020; Wellcome III, p. 547; Norman 1392. [ With :] [LORRY, Anne Charles de]. De melancholia et morbis melancholicis . Paris: P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1765. 2 volumes, 8 o (217 x 137 mm). (Some very minor scattered foxing.) Contemporary mottled paper-backed boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION of Lorry's treatise on melancholia, in which he showed "how one could make use of the mind's influence on the body in curing melancholias" (Norman). Hunter-Macalpine, p. 736; Wellcome III, p. 547; Norman 1391. (2)
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