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Lot n° 1482

Haller,A.v.

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Disputationes ad morborum historiam et curationem facientes. 7 vols. Lausanne, Bousquet (vol. 7: d'Amay) 1757-60. 4°. With 8 (6 ed.) gest. Title vign. and 34 (20 folding) copper plates. Hldrbde. d. Zt. with ribbed edges. (rubbed and worn). Blake 195, Waller 3998, Wellcome III, 199, Lundsgaard 705, first edition, the third and last of the great collected works edited by Haller after the "Disputationes anatomicae" (7 vols.) and "Disputationes chirurgicae" (5 vols.). - Haller was one of the most imposing figures in the whole of medicine, besides being a superb bibliographer and the founder of medical bibliography. As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. The German translation was published in 1779-80, 3 volumes in-8°, with the following title "Sammlung academischer Streitschriften die Geschichte und Heilung der Krankheiten betreffend. Brought in a complete excerpt and annotated by Lorenz Crell" (Garrison-M.). - Some stains, library stamp on the back, bookplate.