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LARREY, Dominique Jean, Baron (1766-1842). Clinique chirurgicale, exercée particulèirement dans les camps et les hopitaux militaires, depuis 1702 jusqu'en 1829 . Paris: Gabon, November 1829 (vols. 1-3 and atlas); Paris: J.-B. Balliére, 1832 (vol. 4). 4 volumes, 8 o (202 x 127 mm). (Occasional slight browning or foxing.) Contemporary quarter morocco (rubbed). Provenance : Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes (inkstamps on titles, presentation inscription). EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LARREY: "A La Societé d'Anthropologie De la part de l'auteur Larrey." After the defeat of Napoleon, Larrey took up civilian practice and taught medicine in Paris. He published extensively on his medical innovations and observations. The present work on surgical pathology is his longest surgical treatise. Volumes 1-3 were published by Gabon in November 1829, but the edition was soon taken over by J.-B. Balliére, whose imprint dated 1830 wasfound on the wrappers of the Haskell F. Norman copy; the remaining volumes were published by Balliére in 1832 and 1836. This copy lacks the atlas to parts 1-3 only very rarely found with the work. Garrison-Morton 5589.1; Norman 1282; Wellcome III, p. 451 (without atlas). (4)