Joannes BUSAEUS
Panarion, hoc est Arca medica variis divinaee scriptinae priscorumque patrum antiolotis adversus animi morbos instructas?[Panarion, or the Medical Ark, furnished with various antidotes drawn from Holy Scripture and the ancient Fathers against the diseases of the soul]
Jean Pillehotte|Lyon 1609|10.50 x 18.20 cm|relié
First French edition, after the first edition published in 1608 in Mainz, where the author worked as a teacher. Illustrated with a title-frontispiece, allegory of the 7 deadly sins represented by monsters, Christ in medallion at the top with his feet on a seven-headed dragon.
Contemporary beige morocco, spine elaborately decorated in gilt, sides with central gilt armorial stamps, full quartered arms on the lower plate, boards elaborately framed in gilt using the same tools as the spine, with gilt cornerpieces, gilt edges, traces of laces. Upper spine restored, as well as spine-ends. Brown stain to second board, 1cm in diameter. Leaf 553, a hole to the lower margin, a few pale t
€6,000