Galien / Jean Chièze - Galien. Epitome en quatre parties - 1964

Magnificent complete four-volume set of Galen's Epitome, published in Glory of Galen by the Union Latine d'Éditions in 1962.
Author: Galen
Illustrator: Jean Chièze (original wood engravings)
Publisher: Union Latine d'Éditions, Paris
Year of edition: 1962
Special feature: Presence of a signed autograph inscription dated 1964 by the illustrator Jean Chièze to the physician Henri Bedin (“To Mr. Doctor Henri Bedin, as a sympathetic souvenir and in homage...”).
Edition: Numbered copy no. 3723 printed on Arches rag paper.
Binding: Full leather by the publisher, cognac/tawny color, spine with raised bands ornamented with the caduceus, boards decorated with stamped motifs (zodiac and figures).
Presentation: 4 volumes in their original leather-tampled slipcases.
Condition: In very good overall condition. Bindings solid, interiors very fresh, wood engravings of great clarity.