De l’assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Plan d’un Hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme. (With the author’s manuscript for the second edition)

Par C. Tollet, ingénieur. Paris : chez l’auteur, 49, rue d’Amsterdam, 1889. Large quarto (325 x 260 mm), later cloth binding (boards a little flecked), spine with printed title label; original wrappers bound in (darkened and lightly marked); pp. x, 104, with 32 plates and numerous in-text illustrations; text in French; fore- and bottom edges uncut; contents very clean throughout. [TOGETHER WITH] Tollet’s manuscript for the second edition of the first work: Les édifices hospitaliers depuis leur origine jusqu’a nos jours. De l’assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu’au XIXme siècle. Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle. Études, projets, discussions et programmes relatifs a leur construction. Description de l’hopital civil et militaries suburbain de Montpellier. Par C. Tollet, ingénieur … … Deuxième édition. Paris, 1892. Quarto (300 x 200 mm), original cloth-backed limp marbled papered boards (worn at corners); pp. 168, manuscript in French in black and red inks; not illustrated; early ownership stamp to title-page; clean and legible throughout. Note: this work was published in Paris later the same year under the same title as this manuscript version.

Charles Tollet (1828-1899) was an engineer known chiefly for his achievements in hygienist architecture in hospitals and military barracks. He formulated the so-called “Tollet System” which was designed to combat miasmas and was incorporated into the hygiene policy of the Third Republic. His innovations are acknowledged to have significantly restricted contagion and reduced mortality rates in French hospitals. Tollet was also a historian of hospital architecture.