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Please consult the conditions of sale at the end of the description before purchasing. BOURGERY, J[ean].M[arc]., Doctor; JACOB, N[icolas].H[enri]. LEVEILLE, JB; HUBLIER, Ch. Complete treatise on human anatomy including operative medicine, with lithographed plates from nature. Seventh volume: Operative medicine. Supplement to the iconography of surgical anatomy and operative medicine. [Text] & Iconography of surgical anatomy and operative medicine. Second division. [Atlas]. Paris, CA Delaunay publisher, Anatomical Librairie, Printed by Paul Renouard, Imprimerie Lemercier, Bernard et Cie, 1840. 2 volumes [Text + Atlas]. Large folio , 33 x 43.5 cm. Binding in tan half-sheepskin , smooth spine decorated with golden fillets, titles and volume numbers, marbled paper boards. Text: 356 pp., lij, (1 f.); Atlas: 1 f. (title), 82 + 16 plates, descriptive leaflets. First edition of this volume VII of the Treatise (...) of the anatomy of man devoted to operative medicine, with an atlas containing 98 lithographed plates , including 82 numbered from 1 to 77 and 16, corresponding to the Supplement, identified by letters, from A to P (General aspects of strabismus operations, Strabismus operations, Stuttering operations, Clubfoot operations, Tenotomy instruments MJ Guérin, Various cases of retraction of muscles of the vertebral grooves treated only by the use of mechanical means, Subcutaneous puncture method of MJ Guérin). This “monument” of medicine remains an essential work, still sought after today. Very rubbed bindings, jaws of the first cover slightly cracked at the head of the text volume (not serious), lower corners of the two covers torn off on the volume of plates, foxing, stains and browned pages, a tear without loss or damage to the text p. xlvij of the Supplement (restored with filmoplast), relatively significant marginal watermarks in the gutter on the first 50 leaves and at the head over the entire book block in the text volume, scattered foxing and healthy watermarks at the head margin of the volume of atlas, a tear without missing (restored with filmoplast on the back) on plate 77, otherwise solid and readable copy. The work of Bourgery and Jacob holds a special place in the history of anatomical atlases. -by its duration: the publication continued for approximately 40 years, if we add to the first edition by Delaunay (1831-1854), that of Louis Guérin, enriched with numerous supplements from 1867 to 1871. -by its perspectives: drawn entirely from nature, from dissections, its objective is not only to renew the iconography of the human body, but also to provide an educational dimension. Thus the part dedicated to operative medicine details the equipment, procedures, required gestures and the anatomical regions concerned for the different operations, carefully described. -by the mobilization of numerous actors and trades (anatomists, prosectors, doctors, designers, lithographers, technicians, printers, publishers, patrons, booksellers, etc.), under the leadership of the two project managers, the anatomist doctor Jean -Marc Bourgery and the painter-designer-lithographer Nicolas-Henri Jacob, who play an unprecedented complementary role. The extreme precision and technical, as well as aesthetic and scientific, quality of the boards had a considerable impact on contemporaries, who readily qualified it as a "masterpiece". “It is enough for us to say here that the work of Mr. Bourgery is one of the most beautiful of which our century will boast. To all the facts that the most in-depth historical knowledge could reveal to him, the author adds discoveries of his own; and he had the talent to bring the attention of anatomists back to particularities glimpsed by ancient authors, but forgotten, or even rejected, by observers less attentive than himself. » Ph. The Bottom, “Bougery (JM)”, in L’Univers. France: Encyclopedic Dictionary, vol. 3, Paris, Firmin Didot brothers, 1840-1845, p. 247. Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery , born in Orléans in 1797 and died in Paris in 1849, entered the Paris School of Medicine in 1811. A brilliant student of Lamarck and Laennec, external in 1815, internal the following year, he notably obtained, in 1819, the gold medal from the Paris hospitals. After working as a health officer in a copper foundry near Rouen, at the end of his internship, he returned to Paris in 1827. He then defended his doctoral thesis on “the use of circular limb ligatures in most periodic diseases”, which he dedicated to Guillaume Dupuytren, his mentor. The publication of these works, as well as that of a Treatise on minor surgery (1828), met with some success. It was thanks to the patronage of Baron Benjamin Delessert that he was then able to undertake, from 1829, his major work, the Complete Treatise on the Anatomy of Man, published between 1831 and 1854 (the last volume, as posthumous), praised by his peers and numerous intellectual and artistic personalities (Cuvier, Michelet, Delécluze, Claude Bernard, Hirschfeld, etc.). During the last twenty years of his life, while devoting himself essentially to this monumental work, he studied breathing, the nervous system, the structures of the lungs, the heart, the spleen, the thyroid, etc. In addition, Doctor Félix Thibert had entrusted him with the management of the Museum of Imitative Anatomy, which he had founded on rue du Montparnasse: he made certain pieces in pasteboard, in order to clarify and modernize the representations of various visceral lesions ( previously made of wax). An unsuccessful candidate for several prestigious positions or functions, he confesses his bitterness regarding this lack of recognition in the eighth volume of the Treatise (“Today, after twenty years, I am nothing and I no longer expect Nothing. I have finished with this singular revelation: it is the cry of twenty years of oppression that escapes me. So I give my example to be avoided, if there were any imprudent person ready to allow himself to be seduced, as I did, by an inconsiderate love of science. At least he will learn from me that conscientious work leads to nothing. Forgive me for this complaint, it is the first, it will also be the last. » [pp. II-III]). Bourgery died in Passy in June 1849, at the age of 52, a victim of cholera. Nicolas-Henri Jacob (Paris, 1782-1871) , grandson of a painter and son of a carpenter, cousin of the famous cabinetmaker Georges Jacob, was a student in painting of Jacques-Louis David, in sculpture of Dupasquier and Morgan. Entering the service of Eugène de Beauharnais, in Milan, as court painter (between 1805 and 1814), he also became known in the drawing and design of furniture, notably for Marie Desarnaud and the Duchess of Berry. Returning to France, in 1830 he opened his own drawing class in Paris, after having taught this art at the National Veterinary School of Alfort. Nevertheless, he developed a passion very early for lithography, a new technique at the time, and frequently exhibited his works at the Salons during the Restoration (Gold Medal in 1834). From 1831 to 1854, he set about producing the plates for Bourgery's Complete Treatise on the Anatomy of Man, becoming a true scientific collaborator: he led a team of around twenty draftsmen and lithographers, including Jean- Baptiste Leveillé and Charlotte Hublier (his wife, also a painter). He ended his career by sharing his activity between exhibitions at Salons and lithographic illustration of scientific works. He died in Paris on January 31, 1871. ___ Bookstore L’Art et la Manner 19 Route de Pithiviers 45300 BOYNES France Member of SLAM and LILA ( National Union of Ancient and Modern Bookstores / International League of Old Booksellers) ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) English spoken Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any inquiry The greatest care is taken in the description of the works, however, unintentional errors may be made. Do not hesitate to inform us, including after receipt of your purchase. Regarding shipping: The choice is yours! So that you can benefit from the best services and the most advantageous quality/price ratio, the bookstore offers you: Hand delivery by appointment, in Boynes, near Pithiviers, or in Paris on Saturday mornings or during old book fairs. Sending by the Post Office : by letter for folds less than 3 cm thick (packaging included) or by colissimo. Deposit in Relay Point . The bookstore practices group shipments . 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A brilliant student of Lamarck and Laennec, external in 1815, internal the following year, he notably obtained, in 1819, the gold medal from the Paris hospitals. After working as a health officer in a copper foundry near Rouen, at the end of his internship, he returned to Paris in 1827. He then defended his doctoral thesis on “the use of circular limb ligatures in most periodic diseases”, which he dedicated to Guillaume Dupuytren, his mentor. The publication of these works, as well as that of a Treatise on minor surgery (1828), met with some success. It was thanks to the patronage of Baron Benjamin Delessert that he was then able to undertake, from 1829, his major w