c.1900 Livre d'Or de la Santé [Anatomy/Medicine] 3 Volume Set

FULL TITLE:  Livre d’Or de La Santé: Méthode nouvelle, complète et pratique de la Médecine naturelle et de l'Hygiène privée permettant de traiter soi-même toutes les maladies et assurant la conservation de la santé.

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Half-title: "Vulgarisation de la médecine."

Written by M. Platen

Translation of: Die neue HeilmethodeWritten by M. Platen 

Translated and augmented by: Léon Deschamps

Published by ll Bong & Cie., n.d. (c.1900) 

DESCRIPTION:

This three-volume set is part of the late 19th-century movement to "vulgarise medicine" (vulgarisation de la médecine), designed as a practical guide for “at home” cures and personal health. Each volume is illustrated copiously throughout with black and white figures (485 total), coloured plates (39 of 39 total) and over 12 sets of movable anatomy foldouts hors-texte. All of the moveable foldouts and diagrams are numbered and described in fold-out tables and indexes. 

[Anatomy/Medicine] Platen, M. Livre d’Or de La Santé: Méthode nouvelle, complète et pratique de la Médecine naturelle et de l'Hygiène privée permettant de traiter soi-même toutes les maladies et assurant la conservation de la santé. Paris: Bong & Cie., n.d.(c.1900). 3 Volumes, 8vo., Volumes 1 & 2 ( paged continously pp.1788) with 430 in-text black and white figures, 20 of 20 coloured plates, and 10 moveable anatomy foldouts hors-texte; volume 3 (pp.842), Volume Spéciale, with key and locking clasp on fore-edge, 55 in-text black and white figures, along with 19 of 19 coloured plates and 2 moveable anatomy fold-outs hors-texte. 

Decorative binding with illustrated embossed front cover, backboard stamped with illustrated ribbon and gold oak branch; illustrated spine with embossed title and decoration with the volume number at spine foot. 

 CONDITION: Good Condition, three-volume set. All volumes show some rubbing and loss of colour to the raised decorative figures on the front boards and beneath the spine titles, most pronounced on Tome III. Boards display varying degrees of marking and light surface wear, with bumped corners throughout. Bindings remain generally sound; Tome I retains a strong, intact binding despite the lower portion of the title page being loose/torn from the binding, while Tomes II and III have split front hinges (Tome II also with a split rear hinge), none severed.

Foxing and staining are present throughout the set, heaviest at the beginning and end of each volume. Pages are uniformly toned to a light brown with generally clean, clear text. Anatomical pull-outs are apparently complete overall, though foxed; in Tome II, some diagrams were lightly adhered together, with one detached diagram fragment and some tissue guards likely lacking, while Tome III contains two detached diagram fragments. Edges heavily browned and foxed with speckling throughout. Tome III without key to lock, though lock is open.