ALIBERT

ALIBERT, J L - CLINIQUE DE L'HOPITAL SAINT-LOUIS, OU TRAITE COMPLET DES MALADIES DE LA PEAU Contenant la Description de ces Maladies et leurs Meileurs Modes de Traitement. Paris, B Cormon et Blanc, 1833. Elephant folio, engraved frontispiece, 62 fine lithographed plates (all hand-coloured), text with spotting in parts, plates which face text affected by some offsetting/foxing whilst those which are bound consecutively are mostly clean. Reference: Garrison-Morton #3986-7 and other entries - "Contains Alibert's 'family tree' of dermatoses, a classification later discarded for Willan's scheme...the book is also notable for its illustrations, the first on its subject in a French book [for the edition of 1806], and for its original description of mycosis fungoides"