LARREY (Dominique-Jean). Memoirs of military surgery and campaigns. Paris, J. Smith, 1812-17. 4 volumes in-8, pink paper boards, mute vellum spines, yellow edges (Binding of the period). XXVIII pp, 382 pp, 8 plates -2 ff, 512 pp, 2 plates (9 and 10) - 2 ff, 499 pp, 1 hors-texte plate (the pagination skips from 272 to 275 without lacunae) - VIII pp, 500 pp (the pagination skips from 478 to 481 without lacunae), 6 plates. Extremely rare first edition complete with all 17 plates. A work of real importance not only medically but also militarily. It explains how he conceived military surgery in France and the organisation he gave it...". (Tulard). Copy in a modest contemporary binding with the label of Caillaud, bookbinder and stationer in La Rochelle. Worm work on the table of contents of the last volume, table leaf misplaced in volume III. Garrison-Morton 2160 - Wellcome III, 451 - Catal. vente Norman 599 - Chamonal, Catal. médecins militaires 442 - Tulard 849.