Traité-Pratique de l'Inoculation

Nancy: J.B. Hiacinthe Leclerc; Paris: J. Merlin, 1768. First edition. 8vo. [10], xvi, 500, [10] pp., half-title. Contemporary half speckled calf and boards, citron morocco spine label; tips bumbed, offsetting to half-title, an attractive copy First edition of this history of and argument for inoculation by Gandoger de Foigny (1732-1770), professor of anatomy and surgery at the Collège des Médecines in Nancy.PROVENANCE: 19th-century book-ticket (Bessinge, Science medicales); Librairie Alain Brieux (book-label)