HALLER (Albrecht von). Bibliotheca medicinae... - Lot 170 - Kâ-Mondo

HALLER (Albrecht von). Bibliotheca medicinae practicae qua scripta ad partem medicinae practicam facientia a rerum initiis ad MDCCLXXV recensentur Bernae, apud E. Haller; Basileae, apud J. Schweighauser, 1776-1788. 4 vols. in-4, early Havana calf speckled and glazed, spine with 5 nerves, brown and green morocco title and tomaison pieces, decorated caissons, cold double on the plates, gilt roulette on the cuts, red slices (defects of use, split jaws on 2 vols., 1 title piece missing, very pale wet on vol., 3, bruniss. & freckles without gravity). First edition of this work, the most complete of its time, in which the Swiss physician and naturalist A. von Haller (1708-1777) analyses more than 52000 publications relating to anatomy, surgery, medicine and botany. (Garrison & Morton 6747; Wellcome III, 199).