GODARD Ernest, Dr. - Lot 114

GODARD Ernest, Dr. Egypt and Palestine. Medical and scientific observations. Atlas. Preface by Charles Robin. Paris, Victor Masson et fils, 1867. Large in-4. 29 ff. (including two-sheet title), 27 plates, leaves in hardback folder. Publisher's black half-percaline, printed boards (folder rubbed and soiled with small paper and percaline chips, laces missing, mostly lateral foxing, without the in-8 text volume). Very rare. Atlas only, of 27 black lithographs on grey tone chine appliqué, interfoliated with a printed explanatory leaflet for each. Ernest Godard (1827-1862), former intern at Paris hospitals, became famous for his research into hermaphroditism and his scientific travels in Egypt. His Atlas shows male and female figures suffering from impressive diseases (Aleppo pimples, leprosy, elephantiasis), includes a section on the anatomy of eunuchs and genital plates (circumcision, infibulation) and on hashish. He died young, in Jaffa, of peritonitis, and it fell to his friend and executor Charles Robin to collect and publish his handwritten notes. Ibrahim-Hilmy, Literature of Egypt, 264. [Egypt - Anatomy].