One of the best and most beautiful of all pathological works

CAZENAVE, Pierre Loius Alphee.

Lecons sur les maladies de la peau professees a l'ecole de medicine de Paris.

Paris: Labé, 1856.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #002529

Folio (545 x 345 mm). [4], 233 [1], [2] pp., including half-title, final leaf of index and 60 colored engraved plates, partly finished in hand (numbered 1 to 59 and 25bis). Contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands gilt-decorated and gilt-lettered in compartments, boards also ruled in gilt (light rubbing to spine and extremities, corners bumped), top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Leaves untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean with only very little age-toning, occasional finger-soiling. An outstanding, unstained, unfoxed and unmarked copy. ----

Goldschmid, p.176; Garrison-M. 3992.1; Wellcome II, p.317; Richter, p.207. FIRST EDITION, published in several installments over a period of 12 years. Therefore, complete copies are rare. Cazenave issues 60 illustrations of skin diseases and syphilis in the systematics of Alibert, Plenck, Willan, Biett & Cazenave, including a beautifull image of a 'Lupus erythemateux'. This disease, Cazenave described for the first time in his 'Abrege' of 1838 and named it 1851 in his 'Annales'. According to Richter, Cazenave's work was complete only with the 1856 edition. 43 of the illustrations are by Bocourt and two by Jadin, drawn and stipple engraved in copper, printed in brownish color and completed in hand. Goldschmid mentions Gerard as colorists. The illustrations are consistently true-to-life in coloration and drawing style and of great artistic impact. Goldschmid considers the large Cazenave one of the best and most beautiful of all pathological works. "Cazenave was among the first to classify skin diseases on an anatomical basis ... This large folio atlas is the most visually impressive of all his books." (Garrison-M 3992.1).

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