De l’assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Plan d’un Hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme. (With the author’s manuscript for the second edition)

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Par C. Tollet, ingénieur. Paris : chez l auteur, 49, rue d Amsterdam, 1889. Large quarto (325 x 260 mm), later cloth binding (boards a little flecked), spine with printed title label; original wrappers bound in (darkened and lightly marked); pp. x, 104, with 32 plates and numerous in-text illustrations; text in French; fore- and bottom edges uncut; contents very clean throughout. [TOGETHER WITH] Tollet s manuscript for the second edition of the first work: Les édifices hospitaliers depuis leur origine jusqu a nos jours. De l assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu au XIXme siècle. Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle. Études, projets, discussions et programmes relatifs a leur construction. Description de l hopital civil et militaries suburbain de Montpellier. Par C. Tollet, ingénieur Deuxième édition. Paris, 1892. Quarto (300 x 200 mm), original cloth-backed limp marbled papered boards (worn at corners); pp. 168, manuscript in French in black and red inks; not illustrated; early ownership stamp to title-page; clean and legible throughout. Note: this work was published in Paris later the same year under the same title as this manuscript version. Charles Tollet (1828-1899) was an engineer known chiefly for his achievements in hygienist architecture in hospitals and military barracks. He formulated the so-called Tollet System which was designed to combat miasmas and was incorporated into the hygiene policy of the Third Republic. His innovations are acknowledged to have significantly re

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