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Antoine Court de Gebelin - Histoire naturelle de la parole - 1776
N. 83613707
N. 83613707
(Claude-Nicolas) Le Cat, Traité des sensations et des passions en général, et des sens en particulier.
Followed by:
La Théorie de l'ouïe: supplément à cet article du Traité des sens.
Paris, Vallat-la-Chapelle, 1767-1768. 3 volumes.
XCV + 262 ; LVI-(201 to 684) + (4); XXXII + 320 pages.
With one portrait frontispiece, two engraved frontispieces and 34 engraved plates, most folding. Also some in-text illustrations.
In contemporary calf, showing some slight wear at head of two spines. A lovely set. The paper is thick and creamy and the interior is excellent. The multiply-folding plates are superb, with one or two slightly torn on the crease.
FIRST edition thus, of the Treatise on physiology here in three volumes. Complete.
A well-known and importance set of texts, particularly the third volume.
See Penny Gouk and Ingrid Sykes, ‘Hearing Science in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 66/4 (2011): 507-45.
Ruben Verwaal, ‘Fluid Deafness… early modern Europe’, Medical History 65/4 (20210: 366-83.
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