Author: GODARD, Ernest.
Title: Égypte et Palestine observations médicales et scientifiques.Paris, Victor Masson et fils (back of half-title: printed by Simon Raçon et Comp.), 1867. 2 volumes: 8vo (text) and 4to (plates). With an engraved author's portrait by Jean Charles Le Vasseur and 27 numbered lithographed plates, each preceded by a leaf with a short letterpress caption. Later black half goatskin, with the original boards (text) and the plates loosely inserted in original publisher's portfolio, printed boards, rebacked with black cloth.
Description: [6 incl. portrait], XXXI, [1 blank], 438 pp.First and only edition of a curious collection of medical and anthropological observations, posthumously published from the notes of the French physician and anthropologist Ernest Godard (1826-1862), made during his (fatal) journey through Egypt and Palestine (1861-1862), where he was sent on a scientific mission by Alexandre Colonna-Walewski. Godard specialised in human genitalia as can be seen on the first 6 plates, depicting the remains of a eunuch's genitals (plate I-III), the effects of elephantiasis on male genitals (IV-V) and a comparison between healthy genitals and those with fistula and cysts. Other plates reflects his other interest: teratology, the scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations. Besides diseases and deformities, the text also focuses on more curious topics such as harems. The work opens with a preface by Charles Robin followed by a short biography of Godard.Foxing throughout the text volume; the plates with some spots and minor dampstain at the foot and the boards somewhat soiled, otherwise in good condition.l Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et l'Arabe 1698bis; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 264; for Godard: Hirsch II, pp. 583-584.
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Title: Égypte et Palestine observations médicales et scientifiques.Paris, Victor Masson et fils (back of half-title: printed by Simon Raçon et Comp.), 1867. 2 volumes: 8vo (text) and 4to (plates). With an engraved author's portrait by Jean Charles Le Vasseur and 27 numbered lithographed plates, each preceded by a leaf with a short letterpress caption. Later black half goatskin, with the original boards (text) and the plates loosely inserted in original publisher's portfolio, printed boards, rebacked with black cloth.
Description: [6 incl. portrait], XXXI, [1 blank], 438 pp.First and only edition of a curious collection of medical and anthropological observations, posthumously published from the notes of the French physician and anthropologist Ernest Godard (1826-1862), made during his (fatal) journey through Egypt and Palestine (1861-1862), where he was sent on a scientific mission by Alexandre Colonna-Walewski. Godard specialised in human genitalia as can be seen on the first 6 plates, depicting the remains of a eunuch's genitals (plate I-III), the effects of elephantiasis on male genitals (IV-V) and a comparison between healthy genitals and those with fistula and cysts. Other plates reflects his other interest: teratology, the scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations. Besides diseases and deformities, the text also focuses on more curious topics such as harems. The work opens with a preface by Charles Robin followed by a short biography of Godard.Foxing throughout the text volume; the plates with some spots and minor dampstain at the foot and the boards somewhat soiled, otherwise in good condition.l Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et l'Arabe 1698bis; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 264; for Godard: Hirsch II, pp. 583-584.
Keywords: [4C531C9794C4] AFRICA|[4C531C9794C4] AFRICA -> [C98C41A79B35] North Africa & Egypt|[G8L0ANJLZU76] MEDICINE & PHARMACY|[G8L0ANJLZU76] MEDICINE & PHARMACY -> [K25A81V2GQQC] Medicine & Pharmacy after 1700|[G8L0P27N9XV3] MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD|[G8L0P27N9
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- Book number: L6QBHSVLO129
- Book number: L6QBHSVLO129