[Dr Pierre Magnin, French physician.] Inscribed copy of his printed thesis, 'De l'Action de la Quinine sur les Fibres Musculaires Lisses. Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue a la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier le 13 août 1873.'

66 + [3] + [1] pp., 4to. The item has been disbound from a volume, and the title leaf is longer than the rest, in order to retain the ownership inscription in the top left-hand corner of the title-page, which carries a signed presentation inscription from Magnin to his colleague Frantz Glénard. The title leaf is creased and has a long vertical closed tear near the spine, which has been unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Pp.53/54 and 61/62 have had text trimmed away by the binder. The text ends at p.66; there follow two unpaginated pages of 'Question tirées au sort', a page listing the members of the 'Faculté de Médecine', and a page carrying the 'Serment'. Scarce: OCLC records four copies: three in France (including the Bibliotheque Nationale), and a fourth at the Centre for Research Libraries, Chicago. COPAC lists one copy, at the Royal Society, London.