Histoire de la médecine, où l'on voit l'origine & les progrès de cet art, de siècle en siècle [...].

4to: [18]-820-[20-2 bl.] pp. (some browning and spotting).

Contemp. polished calf (sm. stains, corners bumped), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (joint splitting), red edges.

Corrected enlarged ed. (1st 1696) of one of the 1st histories on medicine by D. Le Clerc (1652-1728). Engr. ill.: front. and 8 full-page pl. (1 signed by A. van der Laan) showing i.a. portraits of Apollo and Asculapius. Folding table p. 287. Title in red and black.
Ref. Blake 261. - Wellcome III:470. - Garrison & Morton 1970, n. 6379 ("The first large history of medicine"). - STCN.