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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 4 leaves, x, [9]-97 pp; 3 folding plates. Contemporary 1/4-leather and marbled boards. Top & bottom of spine of spine rubbed. First Edition. "In 1829, Rigal de Gaillac improved Leroy's brise-coque so as to grasp the stone with two blades instead of three while a very powerful drill eroded a central cavity" (Murphy, p. 171). OCLC locates these copies in US libraries: Illinois, NLM, NY Acad. Med., Coll. Phys. Phila., Pittsburgh. BOUND WITH: BANCAL, A. P.: Manuel-pratique de la lithotritie, ou lettres à un jeune médecin sur le broiement de la pierre dans la vessie; suivi d'un rapport fait à L'Institut Royal de France par MM. Percy, Chaussier, Deschamps, Pelletan et Magendie, en faveur de son nouvel instrument pour l'opération de la cataracte. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1829. Frontispiece (portrait), 1 leaf [facsimile of letter of Prof. [Antoine] Dubois], xxvii, [1], [29]-238 [misnumbered 333] pp, 1 leaf [errata]; 5 folding plates. Small tears in plates 1 and 2.…