Folio, quarter red leather, speckled paper over boards. Fine in Fine publisher's slipcase. Copy 567 of 2800 facsimiles. 75 lithographic plates. "Delpech, Professor of Surgery at Montpellier, published a comprehensive treatise on deformities of the bones and joints. [He] did more than any other man toward the development of orthopaedics in France. -Garrison - /Morton 4315.". This is the Atlas volume, which incorporates much explantaory text with the illustrations. "The basis of his entire teaching is the concept that there is a calibrated relationship between pull and counter-pull within certain co-operating muscles in the body. . The main point however, is how to strengthen the musceles, weakened by deformity, by means of sytematic gymnastics -p.5 of the accompanying 20pp. Introductory booklet. Sir Arthur Keith thought Delpech the first true orthopaedic specialist.

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De L'Orthomorphie, par Rapport a L'Espece Humaine; ou Recherches Anatomico - Pathologiques Sur les causes, les moyens de prevenir, ceux de guerir les principales difformites, et sur les veritables fondamens de l'art appele Orthopedique. ATLAS

Publisher

Editions Medicina Rara, New York

Publication Date

1975

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Facsimile lithographs

Edition

Limited edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

issued without

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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