le Dr. SAUCEROTTE
Recherches sur le régime alimentaire des Anciens, pour servir à l'histoire de l'hygiène, des moeurs, et à l'intelligence des auteurs de l'Antiquité[Researches on the Diet of the Ancients, Contributing to the History of Hygiene and Manners, and to the Understanding of the Authors of Antiquity]
Imprimerie et librairie administratives de Paul Dupont|Paris 1861|15.7 x 23.5 cm|Broché
Rare first edition.
According to the CCF, copies are held only in Paris and Nancy.
Our copy is preserved in its original state, in plain yellow wrappers.
The only edition, considerably expanded from a 28-page pamphlet published in 1860 under the title Essai sur le régime alimentaire des Anciens.
Born into a Lorraine dynasty of physicians, Antoine-Constant Saucerotte was born in Moscow in 1805 and died in Lunéville in 1884.
He received his medical degree in Paris in 1828 before settling in Lunéville, where he successively became chief physician of the civil and military hospital (1838) and professor of natural history at the lycée. A member of...
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