Bound in morocco with the arms - Lot 255

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Bound in morocco with the arms - Lot 255
Bound in morocco with the arms Tenon, Jacques. Memoirs on the hospitals of Paris. Paris, impr. Ph.-D. Pierres, 1788; in-4, 19 x 26 cm, [4] ff, LXXIV + 472 pp, 15 folded plates and 2 folded tables, contemporary binding in green morocco, large gilt fillet in frame, gilt fleurons and central arms on the boards, spine decorated with gilt motifs and bird's irons, double gilt fillet on the edges, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges. First edition. Important work on Parisian hospitals at the end of the Ancien Régime, on the hospital organization of the time and on the reform projects of the great surgeon J. Tenon, who inspired French hospital policy for almost a century. The work is a response to the project of the architect B. Poyet's project to replace the Hôtel-Dieu, destroyed by fire in 1785, with a huge hospital on the Ile aux Cygnes on the Seine. This spectacular project was rejected by a commission created within the Academy of Sciences by the Baron de Breteuil, then Minister of the King's Household, of which Tenon was a member with eight other academicians. The work is dedicated to the members of the Academy of Sciences, of which the baron de Breteuil was a member since 1785. Illustrated with 15 beautiful folded plates of architecture, engraved by C. Haussard or L. Sellier. Hardback copy (f. [b2], pp. XI-XII). A present large paper copy in a beautiful binding with the small-iron arms of the baron de Breteuil (unknown to OHR, close to the 5 iron). Ex-libris of the baron de Breteuil covered by an ex-libris of Anne-Charles, duc de Montmorency (1768-1846) who had married the only granddaughter of the minister. A fine copy. Boards and one corner rubbed. -B22
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