FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH DOUBLE (1776–1842) Traité du croup, ouvrage qui a obtenu une des trois mentions honorables, dans le grand concours ouvert sur cette maladie. Paris: Croullebois, 1811.

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LXV, 521 pp. In-8. Bound in red long-grain morocco, with gilt festoon roll borders, central armorial stamp, smooth gilt-decorated spine, inner roulette, gilt edges. (Zezzio). The binding is signed with the bookbinder’s label, with the address 15 rue du Foin-Saint-Jacques in Paris. The volume includes a photographic portrait of the author, mounted on the frontispiece, and an autograph page by him. Minor rubbing to the binding. First edition of this important medical treatise, one of the earliest works devoted to laryngeal croup. Dedicated to Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia. Bound in morocco bearing the arms of Countess Anna Potocka (1776–1867), bound by Joseph Zezzio, binder to the Dowager Duchess of Orléans, widow of Philippe-Égalité. Countess Anna Potocka, niece of the last King of Poland, married Count Alexandre Potocki, a nobleman of the French Empire, and settled in Paris in 1810 at what is now the Hôtel de Crillon, where she hosted one of the most prominent salons during the Empire. She had a tumultuous affair with Charles de Flahaut, aide-de-camp to Marshal Murat. PROVENANCE: Hans Fürstenberg (ex-libris).

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