VICQ d'AZYR (Félix) - Lot 934

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VICQ d'AZYR (Félix) - Lot 934
VICQ d'AZYR (Félix) Traité d'Anatomie et de Physiologie, with coloured plates representing the various organs of man and animals. Paris, François-Ambroise Didot l'ainé, 1786. 2 large volumes in folio : 3f., 123pp. (text) / 1f. 69 plates engraved by Alexandre Briceau (35 drypoint in black and 34 aquatinted and printed in colour; plate XVIII is represented only in black) and 109pp. of reflections and explanations on the plates. The frontispiece showing "Medicine led by study to new anatomical observations" is missing. Colours quite fresh. ½ 19th century vellum with corners, boards covered with blue vat paper, handwritten title on smooth spine, untrimmed copy with full margins. First edition of this major treatise on neuroanatomy, the most accurate published before the advent of staining techniques for biological tissues. It is the first and only volume of a vast treatise on anatomy and physiology, the publication of which was interrupted by the French Revolution and by the premature death of Félix Vicq-d'Azyr. He was notably the first physician of Queen Marie-Antoinette, and devoted his life to research. He is considered as one of the initiators of comparative anatomy. The text (first volume) includes a Discourse on Anatomy in General, a Discourse on Anatomy in General and an Anatomical Vocabulary with many new terms. The coloured plates "seem to be watercolour drawings that scrupulously reproduce a somewhat idealised aspect of real anatomical structures" (Brunet V, 1176). Provenance: Printed ex-libris Dr François Moutier engraved by Escoube. Doctor François Moutier (1881-1961), physician and poet, specialized in neurology and gastroenterology. The scientific work of François Moutier is considerable. It comprises two stages: the first devoted to neurology (to which he devoted in particular an enormous work on Broca's aphasia); the second, oriented on gastroenterology, made him one of the masters of gastroscopy. He also composed seven collections of poetry.
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