SCIENCE/MEDICINE] - Lot 62

SCIENCE/MEDICINE] LECAT] Physiological Works. A Treatise on Sensations and Passions in General and on the Senses in Particular, Paris, Vaillat-La-Chapelle, 1767 3 in-8 volumes in full marbled calfskin, ribbed spines, gilt decorations in the panels, title and volume number labels: Vol. I: portrait, XCV, 264 pages, 2 plates; II: frontispiece, LVJ, (4), then pages 201 through 684, 16 plates (numbered 2 through 18) as separate inserts; III: frontispiece, XXXIJ, 320 pages, XIII fold-out plates as separate inserts. A colossal work and the author’s most important, richly illustrated (our copy includes a portrait, 2 allegorical frontispieces, and 31 plates). Binding damaged. Volume 1: preliminary leaves bound out of order: a4 before a3