(Hospitals)(TOLLET, Casimir).   DESCRIPTION DE L'HOPITAL CIVIL ET MILITAIRE SUBURBAIN DE MONTPELLIER.         Paris: Chez l'Auteur,   1890.          A detailed study for a new civilian and military hospital to be built in Montpellier, France. Its author was the notable French hospital architect Casimir Tollet, whose comprehensive theories on hospital design were influential at the turn of the century. Tollet proposed, in particular, the idea that modern hospitals should be built as a group of small pavilions spread, campus like, across a large and open site. The use of open spaces and salubrious plantings were an integral part of his plans, which approached the design of the hospital grounds with hygienic requirements clearly in mind. Tollet's plans do also address the problems of interior layout and the structural design of hospitals, and these necessarily make up the major portion of his text, but it is his analytical adaptation of landscape design to the needs of the sick that makes this work of particular interest to the student of garden history.   4to (32.5 x 25 cm); 49 pp. + 10 plates.            Original printed paper wraps, a bit browned; text unopened. $200.00

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