L'art De Conserver Les Dents. Ouvrage Utile & NéCessaire, Non Seulement Aux Jeunes Gens Qui Se Destinent à La Profession De Chirurgien-Dentiste, Mais Encore à Toutes Les Personnes Qui Veulent Avoir Les Dents Belles & Nettes Par Le Sieur GéRaudly, Chirurgien-Dentiste . Claude-Jaquier De Geraudly - Pierre-Gilles Le Mercier

In- 12 ; XI- (1)- 161- (7) pp. ; veau mouchete de l epoque; dos a nerfs orne; piece de titre de ,maroquin grenat - - édition originale. "Gérauldy est le premier qui, après Fauchard, ait écrit en français un ouvrage sur les dents." (Lemerle : "Notice sur l' Histoire de l' Art dentaire"). - - - - - - - - - Small 8vo, pp. xi, (i), 161, (7). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spine gilt, original marbled endpapers, very good copy. Early inscription on the title, later bookplate on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION, variant issue without the author in the imprint. Geraudly published this, the first important French book on dentistry after Fauchard, at a time when French dental books were ?some of the most remarkable and finest dental literature that we posses? (Weinberger, p. 312). ?Fr. A. Geraudly, a French dentist, wrote (1737) an excellent treatise on dental maladies and on the mode of preserving the teeth. His book.contributed to the diffusion of dental knowledge relative to dental prophylaxis and therapeutics, but apart from this brought no increment to the progress of practical dentistry. Some of the ideas of the author, however, merit consideration.? (Guerini, pp. 302?303). The Wellcome copy (III, p. 108) mentions the author in the imprint. See also Weinberger p. 313 and Hoffmann-Axthelm p. 207.