Lieutaud - Compendio della Medicina Pratica - 1789

Very rare first Italian edition of this important work by the French physician Joseph Lieutaud (1703-1780), a pediatrician at the court of Louis XV and finally personal physician to Louis XVI.

Joseph Lieutaud, Compendium of Practical Medicine, which contains the history of diseases, and the manner of treating them: with observations, and critical reflections on the most relevant points..., Bassano, paid for by the Remondini of Venice, 1789.

2 volumes bound together in a single volume, COMPLETE WORK.

Volume I: pp. XII, 300. COMPLETE.

Volume II: pp. 250, (II). COMPLETE.

Copy with plates in overall good to very good condition. Usual signs of wear and time. Private noble library stamp extinct on the title page.

Contemporary half-leather binding with gold-tooled spine, well preserved. Blank endpapers white. Gilded edges.