Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome 1 (=all published) by ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc, baron - 1817

Paris: Caille & Ravier, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio (341 x 265 mm). [6], lxxxviii, 616 pp., including half-title and 24 engraved plates with contemporary hand-coloring. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with 4 raised bands tooled in blind and gilt and with gilt lettering (joints repaired). Text with minor browning and spotting mostly to and outer margins (first prelim. pages and plates a bit stronger), final 16 pages with pale dampstain to lower inner margin. Very good copy. Collated and complete. ----

RARE FIRST EDITION of this ambitious and luxurious publication of which only the first volume appeared. With this work Alibert intended to describe the diseases of the human body classified by the name of the organ from which they originate. This first (& only) volume describes 10 families: Gastroses - Enteroses - Choloses - Uroses - Pneumonoses - Angioses - Leucoses - Adenoses - Ethmoplecoses - Blennoses. The book is illustrated with 24 remarkable hand-colored copper-engraved plates by Tresca after Maurice and Valvile. Printed on heavyweight vellum paper, this work was intended to comprise two volumes, but manufacturing costs prevented the second volume from appearing. Alibert was chief physician at the Saint-Louis Hospital (1768-1837), first ordinary physician of King Charles X and founder of the French school of dermatology. References: Waller 358 (3rd ed. 1838). - Visit our website to see more images!