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AUENBRUGGER, Leopold (1722-1809). Nouvelle mthode pour reconnaitre les maladies internes de la poitrine par la percussion de cette cavit. Translated from Latin into French by Jean Corvisart. Paris: Migneret, 1808.
8o (200 x 127 mm). Contemporary green quarter calf (light wear to spine ends and corners).
Provenance: Monsieur Abraham (presentation inscription from the translator on the half-title: " Monsieur Abraham de la part de son dvou serviteur Corvisart."); Dr. A. Foucart (bookplate); Charles Frederice Terence East (1894-1967), see Garrison-Morton 3161, (bookplate).
PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE TRANSLATOR. "Published the year before Auenbrugger's death, Corvisart's extensively annotated translation of the Inventum novum convinced the medical community of the value and utility of Auenbrugger's discovery" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 2672; Heirs of Hippocrates 955; Osler 1866; Waller 526; Wellcome II, p. 70; Norman 83.
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Provenance: Monsieur Abraham (presentation inscription from the translator on the half-title: " Monsieur Abraham de la part de son dvou serviteur Corvisart."); Dr. A. Foucart (bookplate); Charles Frederice Terence East (1894-1967), see Garrison-Morton 3161, (bookplate).
PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE TRANSLATOR. "Published the year before Auenbrugger's death, Corvisart's extensively annotated translation of the Inventum novum convinced the medical community of the value and utility of Auenbrugger's discovery" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 2672; Heirs of Hippocrates 955; Osler 1866; Waller 526; Wellcome II, p. 70; Norman 83.