LARREY (Jean-Dominique, baron). Mémoires de chirurgie milita - Lot 30

LARREY (Jean-Dominique, baron). Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes. Paris, Smith, Buisson, Imprimerie de Stône, 1812-1817. 4 volumes. - Recueil de mémoire de chirurgie. Paris, Compère jeune, 1821. One volume. - Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages, de 1815 à 1840. Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1841. One volume. Together 6 volumes in-8, the first five bound in paperback, untrimmed, and the last in modern half calf. First edition of the memoirs of France's most famous military surgeon: very rare complete collection of the six volumes published from 1812 to 1841. Illustrated with a total of 23 plates: 17 in the first four volumes, including 2 showing tumors caused by elephantiasis in men and women, 4 in the fifth, and 2 in the last. The campaigns in America, Corsica, the Rhine, Spain, Austria, Russia and Egypt occupy volumes I to IV. With regard to the Egyptian expedition, in which Larrey took part as surgeon-in-chief of the Army of the East, he describes the various diseases encountered, their causes, their evolution, their effects and the most effective way of treating them. He battles tetanus, yellow fever, leprosy, plague, elephantiasis, ophthalmia and more. He also depicts with poignant reality the aftermath of battle: wounds, surgeries, amputations (De Meulenaere, p. 129). Volume V focuses on the Battle of Waterloo, and Volume VI covers the period 1815-1840. Wet stamp of a Catholic institution, almost faded (cancelled on the title of volume V), repeated in the paperback volumes. Pagination of volume IV skips from p. 478 to 481, presumably not missing after comparison with an online digitized copy. Some foxing, discharge left by papers inserted between a few pages.