Live auction - Lot 704
Lettres choisies de feu M. Guy Patin, docteur en médecine [...]. Augmentées de plus de 300 lettres dans cette dernière édition.
Cologne, Pierre du Laurens (part I-III); Rotterdam, Reinier Leers (part IV-V), 1692-1695
€ 100 / 200
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Lot description
4 vol., 12mo: [20]-420, 464, 382, [4]-250, [2]-280 pp. (some waterstaining on the margins of the first vol., lacking the portrait).
Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spines on 5 raised bands (sm. def. on head of vol. II).
Enlarged edition (first 1683), printed in the Netherlands, by the celebrated French physician G. Patin (1601-1672), best known for his letters. This edition is one of the most complete together with the ed. of 1725. The last two parts are titled "Nouveau recueil de lettres choisies". Complete copies are rather rare.
Ref. BnF. - STCN. - Blake 340. - Krivatsy 8661 (part one only). - Wellcome IV:315.