[DOCTOR]. History of the Royal Society of Medicine. Year M. DCC. LXXVI [to Year M. DCC. LXXXIX]. With the Dissertations of Medicine & Medical Physics . Paris, 1779-An VI (1798). - 10 volumes in-4, marbled calf and basane, spine with decorated nerves, red edges (contemporary binding). Complete collection of this periodical publication of the Royal Society of Medicine. It was the brainchild of three men: Turgot, Jean-François de Lassonne, Queen Marie-Antoinette's physician, and Félix Vicq d'Azyr, an anatomist physician and member of the Academy of Sciences. One of its missions was to publish the observations and memoirs it had collected and approved. The collection includes 10 volumes published between 1779 and 1798. With the exception of the last one, each volume is composed of two parts with separate pagination. There is a total of 1 frontispiece, 158 tables, 56 plates and 1 map. Epiderminations, usual rubbings, flattened headdresses, some verse work. Very good interior condition despite sometimes some minor freckles. One joint: - Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery. Paris: P. Al. Le Prieur, 1761 (vol. 1), 1769 (vol. 2), 1768 (vol. 4); Paris: P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1774 (vol. 5). - 4 volumes in-4 (of 5), marbled calf, spine ribbed, red edges (contemporary binding). New edition of the first 2 volumes and first edition of volumes 4 and 5 of this precious collection of memoirs and observations of the Royal Academy of Surgery. The illustration consists of 4 frontispices drawn and engraved by Cochin fils, the same for each volume, 4 title vignettes after Boucher and Eisen, 6 headings after Humblot and Eisen, 6 lettering and 70 plates. Volume 3 is missing and is replaced, in an identical binding, by the following volume: - A collection of pieces that competed for the Royal Academy of Surgery Award. Volume III. Paris: P. Al. Le Prieur, 1759. - In-4, 255 x 192 : frontispiece,