DE L'AUSCULTATION MEDIATE OU TRATE DU DIAGNOSTIC DES MALADIES DES POUMONS ET DU COEUR, FONDE PRINCIPALEMENT SUR CE NOUVEAU MOYEN D'EXPLORATION (TWO VOLUMES)
Paris: J.-A. Brosson et J.-S. Chaude, 1819. Octavos, xlviii, 456 pp, with folding plates and explanations of plates (Vol. 1); xvi, 472 pp (Vol. 2). Good; bound in contemporary green cloth with gilt titling on spine, both with scattered surface marks to boards and wear to spine edges and corners; binding to both volumes tight; text blocks age-toned but clean; some minor foxing to pages throughout both; 4 folding plates present and intact in Vol. 1; MF consignment.
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Two-volume work on the invention of the stethoscope. J.F. Olive, M.D., whose name is on the spine, may have been the previous owner; he cited Laennec in his 1824 dissertation on pneumonia.