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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Manuel de l'essayeur
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
"Based upon lectures given over several years by Livon at L'Écolé de Médecine de Marseilles, where he was responsible for establishing the first physiology department, the work was intended as a practical work for students, having been written 'dans le laboratoire et pour le laboratoire' (p. v1)."--Antiquarian bookseller's blurb.
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Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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