5 volumes, comprising 2 text volumes and 3 portfolios, folio (465 x 311). 228 (of 231) linen-backed lithographed plates, including two double-page plates, many hand-colored, loose in folding portfolios, 4 additional plates, all by J. G. Martin and A. Chazal. (Lacking half-titles; text Vol. I lacking 25pp., comprising: 6pp. "Maladies des artères. Anévrysme...", 15pp. "Maladies de l'utérus et des ovaires...", 4pp. "Maladies de l'utérus. Tumeurs fibreuses..."; text Vol. II 4pp. "Maladies des poumons. Pleurésie adhésive..." Spotting throughout text, plates with some browning or spotting and a few marginal chips with losses.) Modern quarter leather. Provenance: gift from Abel Berland (note laid in). 

 

FIRST EDITION of Cruveilhier's monumental atlas of pathological anatomy, published over thirteen years, in forty separate parts. "The fine hand-coloured lithographs of gross pathology make this one of the greatest works in this kind" (Garrison-Morton). Creveilhier's atlas "has become less dated than some more recent ones that make the most use of the microscope" owing to the accuracy of the illustrations (DSB). Garrison-Morton 2286; Norman 538.

 

Property from the collection of Dr. B. Herold Griffith, Evanston, Illinois