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First Edition, folio (475 x 310 mm), half-title 13 partly hand-coloured lithograph plates, each accompanied by an unnumbered text explanatory leaf, some foxing, old ink library stamp on title and back of plates, [3], 32, [12] pp., later half calf. Pierre-Joseph Manecas surgeon, anatomist: elder brother of the former. Brillant anatomiste il fut prosecteur puis chef de travaux d'anatomie ‡ la facultÈ de mÈdecine de Paris. Brilliant anatomist, he was then chief prosector works of anatomy at the Medical Faculty of Paris. On lui doit des travaux sur la hernie crurale - son sujet de thËse- et sur la neurologie et l'anatomie des nerf en particulier du nerf splanchnique et sur la ligature artÈrielle. He must work on crural hernia - his thesis-and neurology and anatomy of nerve especially splanchnic nerve and artery ligation. A prËs une carriËre parisienne durant laquelle il fut chirurgien ‡ l'hÙpital de la SalpetriËre il regagna son pays natal o˘ il mourrut ‡ l'‚ge de 85 ans. RC. A fter a career in Paris during which he was a surgeon at the Salpetriere hospital he returned to his homeland where he Mourrut at the age of 85 years. Wellcome, IV, p.41.