[23856] Robin, Albert.
Therapeutique Usuelle Du Praticien. Paris, France: Vigot
Freres, Editeurs, 1910. First Edition. Three volumes; Volume I (1910) xii +
520; Volume II (1911) xii + 520; Volume III (1912) 640 pages; each volume is
variously inscribed and signed by Albert Robin on the half-title page or front
endpaper: "A Monseiur le Duc de Loubat, au hommage..."; the books
recording the author's work as part of the Clinique Therapeutique de la Faculte
de Medecine de Paris Hopital Beaujon; French text throughout; Charles Edouard
Albert Robin (1847-1928) French medical doctor, professor, member of the French
Academy of medicine, expert on typhoid fever & cancer and an art collector
1927, friend of Joseph Florimond Loubat (1831-1927)
French and American bibliophile, antiquarian, sportsman, and philanthropist, who
was especially interested in and supportive of the publication of anthropological
works of the Americas and who lived for many years in New York - for the last
thirty years of his life in Paris; the title of Due de Loubat was conferred by
Pope Leo XIII in 1893 as the result of services to the Holy See. “…He inherited
a large fortune which he spent liberally in historical publication and in
support of learned institutions such as Columbia University and the American
Antiquarian Society…” (information from the AAS obituary memorial and online).
Each volume with the armorial bookplate “Bibliotheque Du Duc de Loubat”
engraved by Agry of Paris (signed in the plate); each volume similarly bound in
blue marbled-paper covered boards, dark brown leather spines, gilt spine
titles, top edges tinted red, marbled endpapers; spine leather dry and flaking,
worn; bindings and text blocks sewn securely, contents very clean and in very
good condition; bindings good and an interesting association between the two
collectors.