Important pathological and pharmaceutical work

LIEUTAUD, JOS(EPH). (2). Synopsis universae praxeos medicae, in binas partes divisa,.. Editio postrema... I-II. Parisiis (apud P. Fr. Didot, juniorem) 1774.4:o (254x191 mm.). (5), vi-xxiv, (1)-594, (2, last blank); (5), vi-viii, (1)-623, (1) pp. Contemporary mottlöed calf, somewhat some cracks in the joints, gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spines in six compartments, vol. I with small damage at head, red edges. Some marginal dampstaining in the beginning of both volumes. Some damage to first endpapers in each volume. Bookplayte of the Hammer library. Library duplicate (withdrawn) stamp on first endpapers. 2 volumes. Not in Waller. A new edition of Lieutaud's unfluential pathological and pharmaceutical work, first published in 1765Joseph Lieutaud (1703-1780), French physician. By 1750, he became a doctor in the royal infirmary, then a pediatrician to the Louis XV court, and eventually the personal physician of King Louis XVI. (Wikipedia).