Two works in one volume :
Traité du goitre et du crétinisme bound with le Discours Sur La Biologie: Ou Science de La Vie. Rare
FODERE, François Emmanuel. FODERA, Michele.
Traité du goitre et du crétinisme précédé d'un discours sur l'influence de l'air humide sur l'entendement humain
Relié à la suite :
Discours Sur La Biologie: Ou Science de La Vie [FODERA, Michele]. Baillère. 1826.
Paris, Bernard, An VIII [1800].
200 €
Two works in one 8vo (20.2x12.7 cm), (4)-248-(4) pages / 73-(1 bl.) pages and one folding table.
binding: Bound in later half black calf, flat spine.
Librarystamps. Spotting mainly on the second work. A small lack at the lower corner of the title page of the second work. Binding slightly rubbed.
"Fodéré considered cretinism to be due to the concentrated air in deep valleys, rather than to water. He also drew attention to the skeletal changes". (Garrison).
The second work, rare, is from Michele Fodera. It deals with life science.
references: Garisson & Morton [3810. ed. 1792].
