Duchenne de Boulogne, G.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Album de photographies pathologiques, complémentaire du livre intitulé de l'électrisation localisée. Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1862. Atlas volume only, large 8vo, 17 mounted albumen prints, original purple cloth, owner's inscription dated 1900 at head of title, spotted, small RCSI library stamp to corner of each plate, slight offsetting of library stamp to facing text, library stamp to title, title verso, fading to edges of albumen prints, binding faded and somewhat dust-soiled
Footnote
Note: In 1862 Duchenne de Boulogne published two albums of photographs with accompanying text which appear to have been the first publicly published volumes using photographs of clinical material. The Album de photographies pathologiques contained photographs of clinical entities later linked eponymously with Duchenne, while the Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine presented scores of original prints, some including Duchenne himself in photograph. Wellcome Library no. 578966i. Rare.