Author: DUPUYTREN, BARON GUILLAUME
Title: On Lesions of the Vascular System, Diseases of the Rectum, and Other Surgical Complaints
Description: Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Surgery Library, 1984. Limited Edition. First Printing. Leather. Limited Edition (this is number 2214 of 7500 copies). Full burgundy leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt borders and decoration on covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker bound in. Descriptive pamphlet laid in. Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treating Napoleon Bonaparte's hemorrhoids, he is best known today for Dupuytren's contracture which is named after him and which he described in 1831. A beautiful book. Former owner's embossed leather bookplate on fep, otherwise the volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean; NEAR FINE.. The Classics of Surgery Library Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. viii, 378 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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