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[Miracles - Medicine]
Evangelium medici seu Medicina mystica. De suspensis naturae legibus sive De miraculis [...].
Amsterdam, J. Wolters, 1699
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Beschrijving lot
8vo: [16]-193-[10, 1 bl.] pp. (sl. toned).
Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Good copy.
Amsterdam repr. of the original London 1697 ed. of a "scandalous" work by the Irish physician Bernard (O’)Connor (1666-1698) - an infamous book calling into question the religious bases of miraculous cures in the Gospels. Engr. mark. Title printed in red and black.
Ref. Bib. Med. Neerl. I:151. - Krivatsy 2642. - Wellcome II:382. - STCN.
Prov. Old annotations on front flyleaf and name on title.