French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine (1766-1842)

Guillaume Dupuytren, Dominique-Jean Larrey, and Nicolas-René-Dufriche Desgenettes, with an allegorical surround. Engraving by C. Geoffroy after A. Roy.

French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey. Line engraving by Pollet.

Napoléon et Larrey : récits inédits de la révolution et de l'empire, d'après les mémoires, les correspondances officielles et privées, les notes et les agendas de campagnes de Dominique Larrey ... 1768-1842 / Ouvrage orné de 16 gravures.

Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey. Lithograph by Maurin.

Emperor Napoleon congratulating Baron Larrey in 1813. Engraving after Steuben.

Battle of Ratisbon: Napoleon, shot in the ankle, mounts his horse to join battle before the dressing of the wound is finished. Coloured engraving after C. Gautherot, 1828.

Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after himself.

x, 269 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Larrey : surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard / Robert G. Richardson.

Memoir of Baron Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée, from the French / [D.J. Larrey].

Notice nécrologique sur M. le Baron J.D. Larrey / [Jules Saint-Amour].

Les rapports originaux de Larrey à l'armée d'Orient.

Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey. Lithograph.

Recueil de mémoires de chirurgie / par le baron D.J. Larrey.

Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes / De D.J. Larrey.

Clinique chirurgicale : exercée particulièrement dans les camps et les hopitaux militaires, depuis 1792 jusqu'en 1829 [1832,1836] / par le baron D.J. Larrey.

Memoirs of military surgery, and campaigns of the French armies, on the Rhine, in Corsica, Catalonia, Egypt, and Syria; at Boulogne, Ulm, and Austerlitz; in Saxony, Prussia, Poland, Spain, and Austria / From the French of D.J. Larrey ... by Richard Willmott Hall, M.D. With notes by the translator.

4 unnumbered pages, xi, 1 unnumbered page, 293 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 6, that is, 5 pagesleaves of plates, 1 folded : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Surgical memoirs of the campaigns of Russia, Germany, and France / by Baron D.J. Larrey ; translated from the French, by John C. Mercer.

5 volumes : illustrations, (some colour) ; 21 cm (8vo. +) + 1 atlas (17 leaves of plates.)

viii, 332 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 22 cm

Observations on wounds, and their complications by erysipelas, gangrene and tetanus : and on the principal diseases and injuries of the head, ear and eye / by the Baron D.J. Larrey ; tr. from the French by E.F. Rivinus.

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Dominique Jean Larrey

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Images featuring Dominique Jean Larrey

Works from the collections

Memoirs of military surgery, and campaigns of the French armies, on the Rhine, in Corsica, Catalonia, Egypt, and Syria; at Boulogne, Ulm, and Austerlitz; in Saxony, Prussia, Poland, Spain, and Austria / From the French of D.J. Larrey ... by Richard Willmott Hall, M.D. With notes by the translator.

Surgical memoirs of the campaigns of Russia, Germany, and France / by Baron D.J. Larrey ; translated from the French, by John C. Mercer.

Clinique chirurgicale : exercée particulièrement dans les camps et les hopitaux militaires, depuis 1792 jusqu'en 1829 [1832,1836] / par le baron D.J. Larrey.

Observations on wounds, and their complications by erysipelas, gangrene and tetanus : and on the principal diseases and injuries of the head, ear and eye / by the Baron D.J. Larrey ; tr. from the French by E.F. Rivinus.

Memoir of Baron Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée, from the French / [D.J. Larrey].

Larrey : surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard / Robert G. Richardson.

Memoir of Baron Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée, from the French / [D.J. Larrey].

Notice nécrologique sur M. le Baron J.D. Larrey / [Jules Saint-Amour].

Les rapports originaux de Larrey à l'armée d'Orient.

Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey. Lithograph.

Frequent collaborators

Dominique Jean Larrey

Images from the collections

Images by Dominique Jean Larrey

Images featuring Dominique Jean Larrey

Works from the collections

Memoirs of military surgery, and campaigns of the French armies, on the Rhine, in Corsica, Catalonia, Egypt, and Syria; at Boulogne, Ulm, and Austerlitz; in Saxony, Prussia, Poland, Spain, and Austria / From the French of D.J. Larrey ... by Richard Willmott Hall, M.D. With notes by the translator.

Surgical memoirs of the campaigns of Russia, Germany, and France / by Baron D.J. Larrey ; translated from the French, by John C. Mercer.

Clinique chirurgicale : exercée particulièrement dans les camps et les hopitaux militaires, depuis 1792 jusqu'en 1829 [1832,1836] / par le baron D.J. Larrey.

Observations on wounds, and their complications by erysipelas, gangrene and tetanus : and on the principal diseases and injuries of the head, ear and eye / by the Baron D.J. Larrey ; tr. from the French by E.F. Rivinus.

Memoir of Baron Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée, from the French / [D.J. Larrey].

Larrey : surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard / Robert G. Richardson.

Memoir of Baron Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée, from the French / [D.J. Larrey].

Notice nécrologique sur M. le Baron J.D. Larrey / [Jules Saint-Amour].

Les rapports originaux de Larrey à l'armée d'Orient.

Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey. Lithograph.

Frequent collaborators

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