Etienne BOURDET
Recherches et observations sur toutes les parties de l'art du dentiste[Research and Observations on All Branches of the Dentist’s Art]
Jean-Thomas Hérissant|Paris 1757|9.5 x 16.5 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of Étienne Bourdet’s major treatise, published in Paris in 1757 in two volumes, eleven years after the second edition of Pierre Fauchard’s Le Chirurgien Dentiste. The work is illustrated with 13 folding engraved plates depicting instruments, appliances and dental procedures.
Contemporary full mottled tan calf. Spines with five raised bands outlined in gilt and decorated with gilt floral compartments; bronze calf lettering-pieces, the volume-numbering pieces partly rubbed away; gilt rolls to the headcaps, blind fillet...
€3,250