Jean-François Lavoisien - Dictionnaire portatif de médecine, d'anatomie, de chirurgie, de pharmacie, de chymie, d'histoire - 1781

Rare edition of this synthèse work intended to gather, in an alphabetical and easily consultable form, the medical and scientific knowledge available in the 18th century -

By its encyclopedic ambition, the book far exceeds the scope of a simple medical dictionary, since it simultaneously embraces medicine, anatomy, surgery, pharmacology, chemistry, natural history, botany and physics, thus offering a particularly interesting representation of the state of scientific knowledge on the eve of the great transformations at the end of the century -

Jean-François Lavoisien - Pocket dictionary of medicine, of anatomy, of surgery, of pharmacy, of chymistry, of natural history, of botany and of physics - 1781 - 2 volumes in 1 - Théophile Barrois the younger -
469, 3 blank pages; 358, [2] pages.

Good condition of the binding, work in its full fauve marbled morocco leather, original, wear from use with some minor defects on covers and spine, headcap missing, spine ends and corners worn, red edges, spine with raised bands, gilded title on red morocco piece -

Good interior condition, rare foxing, small vignette on title page, pretty headbands, new edition, corrected and augmented, with a Latin-French lexicon at the end, ex-libris manuscript in Greek of Jean-Baptiste THEVENON, of Craponne, marbled endpapers in acceptable condition, good copy -

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