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| Year: | 1825 | |
| Last Name: | Marmont | |
| First Name: | J. | |
| Title: | L'odontotechnie: ou L'art du dentiste, poeme didactique et descriptif en quatre chants; dedie aux dames | |
| Publisher: | L'Auteur | |
| City: | Paris | |
| Country: | France | |
| Binding Detail: | Original publisher's blue soft wraps, with title page text on front cover, uncut pages, housed in contemporary-style full leather clamshell box, leather title label, gilt tooling to spine and boards. | |
| Condition: | Age chipping to cover edges, mild stains to covers, age toning to pages, clamshell box with no defects. | |
| Notes: | Includes half-title and frontis engraving. This book of dentistry is dedicated to women's dental hygiene and health, presented in long form poetic prose. Marmont won the accolades of Josephine by inventing a special hand held dental vanity mirror for her, and subsequently became her husband Napolean's unofficial dentist before Dubois-Foucou became the official court dentist to the Emperor. Provenance: H S AYOVBVS gilted inside of back cover on bottom edge |
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