Catalogue Des Livres de Médecine, Chirurgie, Pharmacie, Chimie et Alchimie, &c. &c.
Paris, L.-C. d’Houry 1778.
8vo (201 x 124 mm.). 14, [2 blank]p. Woodcut title ornament.
Stitched as issued.
A fixed-price medical book stock catalog by the Parisian firm that specialized in science for generations. Offerings range from surgical manuals, anatomical primers and pharmaceutical dictionaries to treatises on the creation of the philosopher’s stone, the natural history of cocoa and sugar and Nicholas Venette’s sex manual (new edition with more accurate illustrations!). In original condition, with marginal annotations in French to fifty titles noting numbers of copies — ?in stock — and bindings.
¶Lesage et al., Catalogues de libraires 1473-1810 1539; Boyer, Les D’Houry 237.
Price: $3,200.00