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1 drawing : watercolour ; sheet 20 x 27 cm

A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.

95 pages, 3 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm

Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire du tapir : et description d'une espèce nouvelle (le tapir pinchaque) appartenant aux hautes régions de la Cordillère des Andes / par M. Roulin.

Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparèe / [Georges Cuvier].

4 autograph letters, signed, 1846 and n.d. (nos.92-95); autograph observations for the Académie des Sciences on a note by Émile Decaisne (probably the Alphonse Émile Louis Decaisne who submitted his doctoral thesis at Montpellier in 1857) concerning the effects of smoking upon children, Roulin mentioning Gabriel Andral (1797-1876), Claude Bernard (1813-1878) and Marshall Hall (1790-1857), c. 1864 (no.96); notes listing activities at 2 meetings of the Académie des Sciences, 1864 (nos.97-98); sketches of dogs and horses, signed, 1865 (nos.99-100); 2 signatures, n.d. (no.101).

Roulin, François Désiré (1797-1874), physician and naturalist

8 letters (1830 - 1855; 2 with incomplete dates, 1 undated and one dated detached signature) with some written on embossed headed paper

Correspondence includes letters to: Mrs. Levis; Sir Joseph [18081869] (physician) and Lady Olliffe; Philip B. Ayres [1813-1863] (physician); Sir James Paget [1814 - 1899] (surgeon); and Dr Elliott.

Addresses include 14 Manchester Square (where Hall and his wife Charlotte Green lived for 20 years from September 1830 and where their only son, also named Marshall, was born in 1831); and 38 Grosvenor Street where Hall's family took up their last London abode in 1850.

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A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.

Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire du tapir : et description d'une espèce nouvelle (le tapir pinchaque) appartenant aux hautes régions de la Cordillère des Andes / par M. Roulin.

Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparèe / [Georges Cuvier].

Roulin, François Désiré (1797-1874), physician and naturalist

Hall, Marshall (1790-1857), English physician and neurophysiologist

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A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.

Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire du tapir : et description d'une espèce nouvelle (le tapir pinchaque) appartenant aux hautes régions de la Cordillère des Andes / par M. Roulin.

Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparèe / [Georges Cuvier].

Roulin, François Désiré (1797-1874), physician and naturalist

Hall, Marshall (1790-1857), English physician and neurophysiologist

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