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First edition.
Contemporary half calf in a bronze tone, the spine with four raised bands framed by double gilt rules and gilt pointillé work, together with broad black fillets; joints rubbed, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled; a period binding.
Scattered foxing.
First edition. Blue printed soft cover. Cover rubbed, some tears and missing spine.
Very rare essay on feeding bottles by the famous obstetrician Louis-Charles Deneux. He assisted the Duchess of Berry with the birth of the duke of Bordeaux, last legitimate descendant of Louis XV of France in the male line.
Presented before the Paris Academy of Medicine, of which he was a member of the surgical section, at the sessions of 12 and 19 February 1833. Deneux was the nephew and pupil of the famous Baudelocque, from whom he took courses in surgery and childbirth from 1782 to 1789.
Provenance: Mr Duval, penciled ex-libris on the cover; this could be François Marie...
First edition.
Marbled paper wrappers, marbled edges. Wrappers slightly creased, a few ink spots, a dampstain to the upper part of the title page that fades progressively on the following pages.
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Revue de l'Orient, de l'Algérie et des colonies, published in the February 1857 issue.
According to the CCFr, copies are recorded only at the BnF, the BULAC and the Académie de médecine.
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched wrappers, with plain blue temporary paper covers, unopened.
Some foxing.
This pamphlet surveys all the animals mentioned in the Quranic surahs.
The author, Antoine-Paulin Pihan (1810-1879), who was proficient in Arabic, Turkish and Persian, was merely a proofreader in the Oriental typography department of the Imprimerie Impériale. Yet the number of...
