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Jean-Claude-Adrien HELVETIUS / JOHN SMITH - Lot of 2 works, as well as the first 4 volumes of the "Memoirs" of the Academy of Surgery. - Jean-Claude-Adrien HELVÉTIUS - Letters to M*** about the critical letter of M. Besse against the general idea of animal oeconomy and the observations on the small-vein. Paris, Anisson, 1725. In-8, 165 x 105 mm, contemporary brown calf, five-ribbed spine, title-piece (slight spotting, top cover torn off, small worm attacks on spine). [14], 443, [4], [1 bl.] XII-447 pp. (pp. 135-136 & 139-140 inverted). 1 folding plate. Small worm gallery crossing the lower margin of the volume. - John SMITH - A treatise on the medicinal virtues of common water... The treatise on water by Dr. Hancok, entitled: Febrifugium magnum, where common water is the best of all remedies to cure fevers & plague, has been added... With the theses of Messrs Hecquet & Geoffroy on water. Paris, Guillaume Cavelier fils, 1725. In-12, 165 x 90 mm, contemporary calf, five-ribbed spine, title-piece, name in gilt letters on upper board (jaws split at tail). xciii, [3], 335, [9] pp. name of "P. Moreau" in gilt letters on first board. Browning and traces of wetness. - MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SURGERY. Volume one [- four]. Paris, Charles Osmont, Delaguette, P. Alex. Le Prieur, 1743-1768. 4 volumes in-4, 260 x 180 mm, contemporary brown calf, five-ribbed spine, title and greefs (4 plates rubbed). 1.- xl, 778, [3], [1 bl.] pp. frontispiece and 20 folding plates. (Instruments, urology, ophthalmology, harelip, intestine...). Pale spots of wetness. 2.- [4], xcviii, [6], 613 pp. Frontispiece and 22 pl. 3.- [4], 139, [5], 680, [2] pp. Frontispiece, 19 pl. 4.- [4], 123, 699, [1] pp. Frontispiece, 9 pl. Good general condition. TOGETHER 6 VOLUMES, VARIOUS CONDITIONS.
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