Online auction - Lot 404
[Medicine]
Toutes les oeuvres charitables.
Paris, N. de Laune, 1660
Starting bid: €
80
€ 100 / 150
Bidding via DrouotLot description
8vo: [8]-600-[14] pp. (some browning, wormholes and a tiny wormgallery on lower inner margins near the end of the work).
Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, mottled edges (corners rubbed and bumped, def. on covers, upper joint split, def. on head and tail).
Curious gathering (1st 1627) of 13 works of popular medicine by Ph. Guybert (1579-1633), A. Mizault, G. Patin and Galenus containing a.o. the price and the way of making medicines, the way of making all kinds of jellies, and various jams, the preservation of health by a good diet, the way of embalming dead bodies, and the pleasurable method of making medicinal wines.
Ref. Caillet 4881. - Cp. Vicaire 432.