Mémoires de l'Académie royale de chirurgie.

[LA PEYRONIE (de) François Gigot]. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Chirurgie.
Paris, P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1774.

In-12 (170 x 104 mm), 15 volumes: T1 - XC-[2]-391 pp; T2 - 439 pp; T3 - 479 pp; T4 - CLXXIV-232 pp; T5 - 489 pp; T6 - 406 pp; T7 - 432 pp; T8 - 456 pp; T9 - 460 pp; T10 - 213 pp; T11 - 516 pp, [1] f. ; T12 - 388 pp. ; T13 - XLVII-431 pp. ; T14 - 534 pp., [1] f. ; T15 - 544 pp. Full speckled calf, decorated ribbed spine, double gilt fillet and fleurons at the corners and centre, red title page, green tailpiece, gilt fillet on the edges, marbled edges (contemporary binding).

Reprint in In-12 format of the 5-volume In-4 edition (1743-1774) by François de La Peyronie.
Our copy in 15 volumes is illustrated with copper engravings totalling 88 folding plates. Volume 1 is unillustrated. The following volumes contain respectively 7, 13, 4, 16, 2, 3, 5, 11, 4, 2, 3, 9, 5 and 4 folding plates.

These high-quality volumes are of the utmost importance for the history of surgery - they contain a historical section in volumes IV and X - as well as numerous memoirs, observations and experiments by the best surgeons of the time, including Quesnay, de La Peyronie, Petit, Le Dran and de Garengeot. The Académie Royale de Chirurgie was founded in 1731 by Georges Mareschal, Louis XV's first surgeon, and François Gigot de La Peyronie, his successor.

Slightly scattered light brown spots, corners slightly rubbed and a few rare small chips to some headpieces, otherwise the books are extremely well preserved.

Barbier, III, 197, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes ; Eloy, III, 537/539, Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne.