Live auction - Lot 673
[Medicine - Pharmacology]
"Traitté complet de matiere medicale avec les observations et formules de remedes".
[Montpellier], "1748"
Hammer price: €
220
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: [2]-638-[3] pp., brown ink (occ. staining, blank top margin pp. 263-288 gnawed at).
Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt spine with raised bands and morocco label, red edges (rubbed, joints splitting, head and tail def.). Good condition.
Extensive treatise on pharmacological recipes by Nicolas Fournier (1690-1782), in the period 1730-1740 professor at Montpellier and later physician at the Paris Charité Hospital. Manuscript copy by (or for?) the Montpellier physician Des Michels. With some additions, in another hand, at the end.