Paris & Bruxelles, Chez l'Editeur des ouvrages de M. Raspail, 1847-1860. 8 volumes: [iv], 396; [iv], 384; [iv], 392; [iv], 384; [iv], 384; [iv], 384; [ii], 382; [iv], 384 pp. Large 8vo (16 x 24,5 cm.). Bound in contemporary half morocco or roan (quasi uniformly), spine with gilt rulers, gilt lettered and numbered (top and bottom of a few spines slightly damaged or worn). With 1, mycological, lithographical plate.
All that have been published of this rare and most interesting periodical in which Raspail perfectly showed his learning and versatility. A very major source for the history social, medical and scientific milieu of 19th-century France. The last 6 volumes were published during author's exile in Brussels. For a detailed description of the life and works of Raspail see the DSB and the outstanding "Raspail, Scientist and Reformer" by Dora B. Weiner (1968). --(Some scattered foxing and light browning). [weight of the series including packing = 7,5 kg, thus postage consequently as per destination].