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62 - SCIENCE/MEDICINE]
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Estimate €200 - €300
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SCIENCE/MEDICINE] LECAT] Physiological Works. A Treatise on Sensations and Passions in General and on the Senses in Particular, Paris, Vaillat-La-Chapelle, 1767 3 volumes in-8 in full marbled calf, ribbed spine, gilt decoration in the panels, title and volume number labels: Vol. I: portrait, XCV, 264 pages, 2 plates; II: frontispiece, LVJ, (4), followed by pages 201 to 684, 16 plates (numbered 2 to 18) out of text; III: frontispiece, XXXIJ, 320 pages, XIII folding plates out of text. A colossal work and the author’s most significant, richly illustrated (our copy contains one portrait, two allegorical frontispieces and 31 plates). Binding damaged. Volume 1: preliminary leaves bound out of order: a4 before a3
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS
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Auction time 09/12/2026 at 2:15 PM
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