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Leopold de Lafontaine, Traité de la Plique Polonaise, follow - Lot 226
Leopold de Lafontaine, Traité de la Plique Polonaise, followed by observations on this disease. Notes and a List of all the Authors who have written about this disease are attached. With Figures. In Paris, at Méquignon l'Aîné, 1808. In-8 of XXII-135 pp. bibliography, green half-basane, smooth spine decorated (bound c. 1850). First French edition of the German treatise by Leopold Lafontaine (1756-1812) on this disease of the scalp (Balzac's hair disease), translated by the surgeon Antoine-Jacques-Louis Jourdan (1788-1859). 9 curious figures on 7 off-text plates with their explanation. Slight accident on the back. Bibliotheca Walleriana, 5506.
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