The finest pathological color-plate atlas ever produced

LEBERT, Hermann.

Traité d'anatomie pathologique generale et special ou description et iconographie pathologique des alterations morbides tant liquides que solides observees dans ls corps humain.

Paris: J. B. Baillière & fils, 1857-1861.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #004098

Print years: 1857-1861. Two parts bound in three volumes (2 text and 1 atlas). Large folio (455 x 297 mm). Text volumes: [4], ii, 760; [6], 733 [1] pp., including half titles, list of subscribers and index; atlas volume: [2], 46; [2], 44 pp., with separate title-page to each part, 200 plates numbered I to CC, engraved after P. Lackerbauer, most printed in colors and finished by hand. Uniformily bound in contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, each spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and tooling, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (rubbing of extremities, minor paper chipping to corners, leather over upper joint of atlas volume cracked). Except for a trifle of browning to outer margins, crisp and bright internally, free of foxing or staining; light dust-soiling to first and final pages, rare finger soiling in atlas, first two leaves of atlas with vertical crease, short tear at upper margin of final text leaf of atlas. Provenance: British Medical Association Library (ink stamps including withdrawn stamps on title pages, free endpapers, some text pages and plates); the Medical Library of Jan E. Muhlbauer; bookseller Richard Kimpton, Oxford (small sticker to front pastedowns and ink stamp to half-titles). An exceptionally crisp and clean set. ----

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this monumental atlas of pathological anatomy. "Lebert set out to cover both general and special pathology. The superb hand-coloured copperplate engravings of macro- and micropathology in this work are among the finest ever published" (G-M 2297.1). "Lebert's work covers a much wider range than that of Cruveilhier [Anatomie pathologique du corps humain...] or Carswell [Pathological anatomy...] and includes many examples of macroscopic and microscopic anatomy and pathology together with many illustrations of gross specimens. The text volumes provide detailed descriptions of both gross pathology and micropathology, the treatment of some plates amounting to short treatises in themselves. A brief history of pathology dating from the sixteenth century is also included. At the beginning of each atlas volume is a section which conveniently lists and describes each plate. The 200 hand-colored copper engravings are of superb quality and are reminders of the excellence of medical illustration during the nineteenth century" (Eimas).
Bibliography and references: Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates 1803; Garrison-Morton 2297.1; Hirsch-H. III, 706; Goldschmid 198 ff. and plates 40-41. - Visit our website to see more images!

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