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CHORTET, Jean Francois. Traité de la propriété exclusivement stimulante de l’opium… Paris: P.A. Allut, 1804.
8vo. Half-title. Original marbled wrappers, uncut (corners and ends worn with some small losses).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 75 of an unknown limitation, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page verso. RARE TREATISE ON OPIUM, PREDATING THE WARING COPY. The treatise concerns the value and use of opium preparations within the Brunonian system of medicine. Waring II:592 (1805 edition). A Horowitz high spot.