La Vie Privee d'autrefois: Arts, et Metiers, Modes, Moeurs, Usages des Parisiens du XIIe au XVIIIe Siecle d'apres des Documents Originaux ou Inedits (4 volume set)

Alfred Franklin

Plon, Nourrit, 1890

4 volume set, printed 1890-1894. Softcover. French text. Poor bindings. Tears to spines. Some text blocks splitting. Sold with all faults. Contents: L'Hygiene; Les Medicaments; Les Chirugiens; Varietes Chirurgicales. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).