RAYER, Pierre François Olive (1793-1867). Traité des Maladies des Reins et des altérations de la sécrétion urinaire, Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1837 (atlas) & 1839-41 (text), 4 volumes including atlas, 2° and 8°, FIRST EDITION, atlas with 60 colour-printed engraved plates by Ambroise Tardieu and Oudet, volume I of text with 6 engraved plates (atlas volume with some plates and text leaves affected by damp at outer margin, some margins brittle or a little ragged, each plate stamped on verso, final plate damaged at margins, block broken at plate 3, occasional spotting, several tissue guards torn, vol. I: half title repaired at inner margin, title soiled, 2 leaves in quire 3 and one in quire 12 holed at margin, vol. II: clean but deep tear into half title, some spotting, vol. III: half title detached but tipped onto front blank, block broken at p. 529, all vols. with library marks, including title perforation repeated once or twice in text), contemporary mottled boards (the text vols. rebacked in near uniform green cloth, the atlas vol. rebacked in brown cloth but spine now lacking and covers detached). [GM 4208; Waller 7770 (text); cf. Waller 7769 (atlas)] Provenance: Newberry Library, Chicago (shelf label); JCL (4)

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RAYER, Pierre François Olive (1793-1867). Traité des Maladies des Reins et des altérations de la sécrétion urinaire, Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1837 (atlas) & 1839-41 (text), 4 volumes including atlas, 2° and 8°, FIRST EDITION, atlas with 60 colour-printed engraved plates by Ambroise Tardieu and Oudet, volume I of text with 6 engraved plates (atlas volume with some plates and text leaves affected by damp at outer margin, some margins brittle or a little ragged, each plate stamped on verso, final plate damaged at margins, block broken at plate 3, occasional spotting, several tissue guards torn, vol. I: half title repaired at inner margin, title soiled, 2 leaves in quire 3 and one in quire 12 holed at margin, vol. II: clean but deep tear into half title, some spotting, vol. III: half title detached but tipped onto front blank, block broken at p. 529, all vols. with library marks, including title perforation repeated once or twice in text), contemporary mottled boards (the text vols. rebacked in near uniform green cloth, the atlas vol. rebacked in brown cloth but spine now lacking and covers detached). [GM 4208; Waller 7770 (text); cf. Waller 7769 (atlas)] Provenance: Newberry Library, Chicago (shelf label); JCL (4)

Lot Essay

"Rayer insisted on the exhaustive analysis of the urine as an aid to the diagnosis of lesions. He classified 'abluminuric nephritis' into six distinct forms and distinguished these from other forms of nephritis associated with infection, gout, rheumatism, and toxins. He noticed the existence of albuminaria in diabetes mellitus and also described the existene of renal vein thrombosis. His treatise on diseases of the kidney includes a spectacular colour-plate atlas" [GM]. Waller calls for 70pp. and 50 plates in the atlas; the John Crerar copy contains 94pp. and 60 plates.

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