SAKOSKY, [Albert].
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Coup d’oeil sur les imperfections de la chaussure, et les incommodités qui en proviennent, suivi de l’examen d’un procédé ingénieux qui a l’avantage de corriger les unes et de faire disparaître ou prévenir les autres.
A Paris: Chez l’auteur…de l’imprimerie de Didot Jeune. . 1811
8vo, pp. xvi, 86, (2) blank. Some light foxing. Later blue roan. Bookplates of Walter Seelig and J. Colin Dagnall, historians of chiropody.
FIRST EDITION of a very rare monograph on the anatomy and function of the foot, on the effect of footwear, and on the ways of altering and correcting footwear to ensure a better fit. The last part describes shoe stretchers, for which Sakosky was granted an imperial patent.
£300
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