L'acide thyminique dans la thérapeutique des maladies goutteuses

First edition of Georges Duhamel's medical thesis, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Covers and spine slightly and marginally browned without gravity, otherwise rare and handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated 1922 and signed by Georges Duhamel to Edouard Champion: "A mon ami Edouard Champion, savant, lettré, actif et courageux chevalier des belles lettres, cet ouvrage où je le prie de ne jamais mettre le nez. Duhamel." (To my friend Edouard Champion, scholar, man of letters, active and courageous knight of fine literature, this work in which I beg him never to poke his nose. Duhamel.)