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One of the best and most beautiful of all pathological works

Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 

CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 

Leçons sur les maladies de la peau. 

Paris, Labe, 1856.

Folio (544x348 mm), (4)-233-(3) pages et 60 plates (1 à 59 + 25bis).  binding : Contemporary half chagreen. Binding rubbed. Minor foxing. 

Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 

First collective edition, first published in several installments over a period of 12 years.
Cazenave issues 60 illustrations of skin diseases.
The illustrations are consistently true-to-life in coloring and drawing style.
Goldschmid considers the large Cazenave one of the best and most beautiful of all pathological works.

references: Garrison [3992.1 : "Cazenave was among the first to classify skin diseases on an anatomical basis ... This large folio atlas is the most visually impressive of all his books."], Goldschmid [Entwicklung und Bibliographie der Pathologisch : 176].

Price : 3500 €

Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
Photo CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée. 
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