NOUVELLES LETTRES DE FEU MR. GUI PATIN, TIREES DU CABINET DE MR. CHARLES SPON, CONTENANT L’HISTOIRE DU TEMS, & DES PARTICULARITEZ SUR LA VIE & SUR LES ECRITES DES SAVANS DE SON SIECLE. (TWO VOLUMES)
A Amsterdam: Chez Steenhauwer & Uytwerf, 1718.
Half Leather. First Edition thus. First Edition thus of the Nouvelles Lettres de feu Mr. Gui Patin, complete in two volumes. Being the letters from Guy Patin, a seventeenth century French doctor, addressed to Charles Spon, a French doctor practicing in Lyon. Guy, or Gui Patin was not a particularly noteworthy doctor per se, but his letters form an important primary document for the history of medicine, and France at the time. Text in French. Collates complete; [6], 410; [2], 438 pp. Title page in black and red, with an engraved vignette. Faint dampstaining to the top of the preliminaries of Volume I. Top and bottom of the spine of Volume II has been repaired by a conservator using Japanese tissue; loss to the extremities of Volume I, and some surface loss to the paper covered boards. Half leather over marbled paper.
Good binding.
Item #286400
Price: $175.00