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Provenance: Steeven’s Hospital Medical and Surgical Library with
large oval library stamps dated 1813 on titles, several other text pages
and plate versos.
First editions, Wrst issues. Later issues of vols I and II have the prelims
reset with the same imprint as vol. IV. Mémoires: Garrison–Morton
2160; Wellcome III, p. 451; Norman Library 1280; Recueil: Norman
Library 1281.
The most important work on military surgery after Paré. Larrey recounts
his service in North America as chief surgeon on the frigate Vigilante, and in
Napoleon’s army. These are the four volumes of the original Mémoires together
with the Recueil, detailing research undertaken to verify treatments established
during the campaigns. A further volume describing campaigns from 1815 to
1840 was published in 1841, Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages, de 1815
à 1840, usually catalogued as a separate work.
‘Larrey was the greatest military surgeon in history. Of him Napoleon
said: “C’est l’homme le plus vertueux que j’ai connu”. He was present at
all Napoleon’s great battles and one of the few who stood by him on his
abdication, and was waiting for him on his return in 1815. Larrey was one of
the Wrst to amputate at the hip­joint, the Wrst to describe the therapeutic eVect
of maggots on wounds, gave the Wrst description of “trench foot”, invented
the “ambulante volonte”, used advanced Wrst­aid posts on the battleWeld,
and devised several new operations. He was familiar with the stomach tube,
with débridement, and with the infectious nature of granular conjunctivitis.
He was a kindly man, who devoted much of his life to the well­being of
the soldiers, among whom not even Napoleon commanded more love and
respect.’ (Garrison–Morton.)
119
LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von (1646–1716)
Hypothesis Physica Nova qua phaenomenorum naturae
plerorumque causae ab unico quodam universali motu, in globo
nostro supposito, neque Tychonicis, neque Copernicanis aspernando,
repetuntur. Nec non theoria motus abstracti.
Lonndon: impensis J. Martyn, Regiae Societatis typographi, ad insigne
campanae in coemeterio divi Pauli, 1671.
12mo: A 8 (+/–A2) B–D 8 E 6 (–E6 presumed blank), 53 leaves, pp. 74,
30. The bifolium C1.12 is a folding leaf paginated 49/50 and bound as
C1 (thus there appears to be no C12 and there are 104 instead of 106
pages). Divisional title ‘Theoria motus abstracti’ on D3r.
141 x 72mm. Clean tears in blank margin of title and into the text of
D4. Some soiling and light discolouration.
Binding: Recent quarter calf.
Provenance: Sion College Library with library stamps on verso of title
and D3v, the former with release stamp. Walter Pagel’s signature,
undated, on pastedown.