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Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1746.2 parts in two 12mo volumes [166 x 94 mm] of: I/ xxiv pp., 1 portrait of the author as frontispiece, (4) ll. of table, 494 pp. and 8 full page plates; II/ (6) ll., 425 pp., (18) and 34 full page plates. Bound in full contemporary light brown roan, spines ribbed and decorated, red edges, slight rubbing to the joints, slight differences in the ornamentation of the spines. Contemporary bindings.
Second original edition illustrated with a portrait of the author and 42 plates.
David, Bibliographie française de l'art dentaire, p. 113 ; Blake p. 144 ; Garrison-Morton 3671 ; PMM 186.
It is important since it contains the first description of the illness attacking the gums and the alveolus(Vol. I, pp. 275-277), " which will be called after him 'Fauchard's disease'". (En Français dans le texte, 142).
"No other individual in the history of dentistry played a more important role in its development than Fauchard" (Eimas).
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