SCIENCE/MEDICINE] - Lot 104

SCIENCE/MEDICINE] DE BORDEU (Théophile)] Recherches sur le pouls par rapport aux crises..., Paris, Didot jeune, 1779 Four in-12 volumes in full calf, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, title and chapter pages I: VIJ, XXVIIJ, then pages 17 to 20, 356 pages; II: VIIJ, 388 pages, (4); III: 323 pages; IV: 660 pages, (1). New edition... "containing the decisions of several learned physicians on the doctrine of the pulse, with reflections and some dissertations which have not yet seen the light of day: a new dissertation on critical sweats and the pulse has been appended". In the first volume, pages 17 to 20 have been inserted before the beginning of the text, leather missing from the cover of volume II. Damage to head of first volume. Uneven binding (different colored headpieces). Worm work on first volume. Some foxing.