Blandin Ph Fred (7 results)

Condition: Fair. Folio (36 x 26.5cm): 28pp, 12 lithographic plates. Light foxing of plates, but heavier foxing of text. Early cloth binding with damage to ends of spine. Corners worn.

Condition: Very Good. Bon Etat. in8. 1834. Relié. 680 pages. Un vol. rel. demi veau dos à nerf caissons ornés de fleurons dorés tranches marbrées int. frais.  Deuxième édition. Une pl. dépliante Volume de texte seul sans l'atlas. . Very Good.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20203139: 1827. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 28 pages - plats absent - dos abimé. . . . Classification Dewey : 470-Langues italiques. Latin.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 266, [2] pages. In Very Good condition. In black leather quarter binding with black and dark blue marbled paper boards; spine paneled with gilt titling. Mild shelf wear to boards, with rubbing along edges and at fore corners. Thin scratch on spine. Text block shows light wear along edges. Lightly age toned and foxed throughout. Splitting to front hinge. Light penciling on front free endpapers, including a note from a former seller describing the book's significance. Faint dampstain in bottom corners starting on page 209, faded by page 259; page contents unaffected. Shelved in Case 5. This is an influential early treatise on plastic surgery by Philippe-Frédéric Blandin, an important pioneer of autoplasty. While not the first European work to deal with plastic surgery - some works on specific procedures such as rhinoplasty had been published before - this was "the first treatise on plastic surgery in general", per GM 5743.1. This additionally represents Blandin's only monograph on the subject, published while plastic surgery was still a relatively new practice in the West. 1409097. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Blandin, Philippe-Frédéric (1798-1849). De l'usage des inhalations d'éther dans les opérations chirurgicales. Offprint from L'Union médicale (March 1847). 15pp. Paris: Labé, 1847. 205 x 135 mm. Later marbled wrappers. Fine copy. First Edition, Offprint Issue, very rare. Blandin, the noted French surgeon and professor at the Faculté de Médecine, read the above memoir before the Académie Royale de Médecine on March 23, 1847, just a few months after ether anesthesia had been introduced in Europe. Blandin took a cautious approach to the use of ether in surgery, recommending that it not be used in cases where the operation was likely to be prolonged. Blandin is best known for his contributions to plastic surgery: He did pioneering work in rhinoplasty and septoplasty, and coined the term autoplasty to refer to skin taken from the patient for grafting purposes. See Fulton & Stanton, Centennial of Surgical Anesthesia, no. 40. .…

20 Doppelseiten. 4°, Neubindung, kasch. Ln., aufmontierter Originaltitel. Papier gebräunt, lichtrandig, stockfleckig. 20 ganzseitige Lithografien. Französischer Text. 1000 gr.

First Edition. ou restauration des parties du corps qui ont ete detruites, a la faveur d'un emprunt fait a d'autres parties plus ou moins eloignees. [Text in French]. Pp. 268, 2 printed folding leaves at front, index; qr. calf, rebacked with later spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, edges lightly worn, the corner tips neatly repaired; marbled edges, later endpapers and binder's blanks; minor production (trimming) to bottom edge of three leaves (pp. 143/4, 241/2 & 245/6), a few spots of foxing and occasional faint soiling; Germer Bailliere, Paris, 1836. First edition in book form. Wellcome II, p. 177. *The first general treatise on plastic surgery, originally published as a thesis earlier in the same year (De l'autoplastie: these presentee et soutenue le 19 Fevrier 1836: au concours pour une chaire de clinique chirurgicale vacante a la Faculte de Medecine de Paris). Philippe Frederic Blandin (1798-1849) is credited with coining the term autoplasty to describe skin taken from the same patient for grafting purposes. He is remembered today for his pioneer work in rhinoplasty and septoplasty.…