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NICHOLAS DUBOIS DE CHEMANT. A Dissertation on Artificial Teeth. Evincing the advantages of Teeth made of Mineral Paste, over every denomination of animal substance. To which is added, Advice to Mothers and Nurses, on the prevention and cure of those diseases which attend First Dentition. Fourth Edition. London, T.Bensley 1804 Octavo, old marbled paper covers, red morocco label lettered gilt, viiipp + 94pp, fine engraved portrait frontispiece of the author engraved by P.Condé after Charles Dufretay, double page engraved plate of Mineral Paste Teeth dated Oct 1st 1802, light off-setting of the portrait on to the title, a fine copy. Rare. Menzies Campbell 57. Not in Crowley. Poletti p.60. Weinberger p.31. see Garrison & Morton 3677. Dechaume & Huard, Histoire Illustré de l’Art Dentaire, 1977, pp.91-93. Wellcome II, p.490. The fourth edition. The first monograph on false teeth. The book was first published in English translation in London in quarto and octavo in 1797. This 1804 edition is the next English printing. Dubois de Chemant (1753-1824) was the father of false teeth manufacture. He was a Parisian dentist who was the first to manufacture porcelain teeth by a process modified from that originally invented by an apothecary named Duchateau in 1776. As his patented teeth did not prove to be popular in France, Dubois de Chemant moved to London and took out an English patent. First published in Paris in 1788 Dissertaion sur les avantages des nouvelles dents, et retailers artificiels, incorruptibles et sans odeur, and a second French edition appeared in 1790. £900 |
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