Ventes live - Lot 692
[Medicine]
De nieuw hervormde genees-konst gebouwt op de gronden van 't acidum en alcali [...].
Amsterdam, J. ten Hoorn, 1694
€ 150 / 250
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Description du lot
8vo: [30]-258-[6] pp. (min. soiling, browning and waterstaining throughout, occ. fox., min. damage to margins).
Contemp. overlapping vellum, flat spine, red edges (soiled, some minor defects).
Third edition (first 1687) of this quite amusing non-illustrated book based on the experiences in Batavia and Ceylon of the 17th-c. physician Daalmans, whose merit is to have helped to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western medicine.
Ref. NNBW X:231-233. - STCN.
Prov. Libr. stamps.