Leçons sur les maladies de la peau professées à l'Ecole de médecine de Paris

First edition in book form; the rare original edition was issued in parts between 1845 and 1856 (Brunet, I, 1707. Garrison and Morton reference three works by Cazenave on skin diseases).

Illustrated with 60 large and striking hand-colored plates.

Contemporary half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands adorned with double gilt and black fillets, sides covered in marbled “cat’s eye” paper, some rubbing to the upper portion of the front board, endpapers and pastedowns in combed marbled paper, corners a bit worn; later binding.

Minor foxing, a pleasing copy overall.

Pierre-Louis Alphée Cazenave (born in Paris around 1795, died in Garches in 1877) was a student of Biett at the Hôpital Saint-Louis; appointed in 1838 to substitute for Alibert in his course on therapeutics, he later held the chair of dermatology at the École de médecine from 1841 to 1844.

He was among the first to study syphilis in a methodical manner.