Hippocrate; Jean Chièze - Oeuvres complètes - 1955
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Remarkable limited edition of 9,000 numbered copies, this one being one of the copies numbered on cream vellum Stendhal paper from the Renage papermills. A Greek physician of Antiquity, Hippocrates (circa 460 B.C.–circa 370 B.C.) remains the founding figure of Western medicine, both for the authority attached to his name and for the extensive corpus of treatises transmitted under the name of the Hippocratic Corpus. The edition of Hippocrates’ Complete Works, published here in 1955 under the direction of Maurice Robert for the Union littéraire et artistique, is presented in five volumes illustrated with original wood engravings by Jean Chièze (1898-1975).
Jean Chièze’s wood engravings, of great graphic sobriety, give the treatises a plastic resonance that accompanies the gravity of the ancient text and underscores its timeless character. This edition thus holds a double interest: documentary, by making available a major medical corpus in a modern and bibliophilic form, and through the care given to the binding in chocolate brown goatskin stamped with blind motifs.
Good overall condition, the defects are minor.
Seller's Story
Les Colporteurs have been practicing for more than twenty years and offer a variety of books with a predilection for the old and the rare. They also act as experts in old books for courts, estates and auctions in Vendée and Aquitaine.
Remarkable limited edition of 9,000 numbered copies, this one being one of the copies numbered on cream vellum Stendhal paper from the Renage papermills. A Greek physician of Antiquity, Hippocrates (circa 460 B.C.–circa 370 B.C.) remains the founding figure of Western medicine, both for the authority attached to his name and for the extensive corpus of treatises transmitted under the name of the Hippocratic Corpus. The edition of Hippocrates’ Complete Works, published here in 1955 under the direction of Maurice Robert for the Union littéraire et artistique, is presented in five volumes illustrated with original wood engravings by Jean Chièze (1898-1975).
Jean Chièze’s wood engravings, of great graphic sobriety, give the treatises a plastic resonance that accompanies the gravity of the ancient text and underscores its timeless character. This edition thus holds a double interest: documentary, by making available a major medical corpus in a modern and bibliophilic form, and through the care given to the binding in chocolate brown goatskin stamped with blind motifs.
Good overall condition, the defects are minor.
Seller's Story
Les Colporteurs have been practicing for more than twenty years and offer a variety of books with a predilection for the old and the rare. They also act as experts in old books for courts, estates and auctions in Vendée and Aquitaine.
Details
Number of books
5
Subject
Art, Fine Bindings, Illustrated, Medicine
Book title
Oeuvres complètes
Author/ Illustrator
Hippocrate; Jean Chièze
Condition
Good
Artist
Jean Chièze / Hippocrate
Publication year oldest item
1955
Height
24.5 cm
Edition
Illustrated Edition
Width
19.5 cm
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Union Littéraire et Artistique
Binding/ Material
Leather
Number of pages
1895
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