Jean FOURNIER
[IMPRESSION DE DIJON] Mémoire sur l'eau de la rivière d'Ouche qui baigne les murs de la ville de Dijon[DIJON IMPRINT - Memoir on the Water of the River Ouche, Which Flows Along the Walls of the City of Dijon]
Antoine De Fay|Dijon 1762|11.3 x 18 cm|Broché
Very rare first edition.
According to the CCFr, copies are recorded only in Dijon and Nîmes.
Our copy is offered disbound, with a few foxing spots and a small wormhole in the left margin of all leaves, not affecting the text.
Having observed that the water supplied to Dijon was unwholesome, the author argues that the waters of the River Ouche, being of good quality, could be used for consumption.
Jean Fournier, doctor of the University of Montpellier, was successively salaried physician to the city of Dijon, physician to the Estates of Burgundy, and naval physician in the ports of Brest and Lorient.
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