Paul SAINT-OLIVE
Essai sur l'antiquité de l'usage de saluer ceux qui éternuent et sur la manière dont les romains saluaient[Essay on the antiquity of the custom of blessing those who sneeze]
Imprimerie d'Aimé Vingtrinier|Lyon 1859|13.4 x 20.4 cm|Broché
First edition (only three copies recorded in the CCFr: BnF, Lyon and Montpellier).
Blank spine split with small losses, a few instances of foxing.
The sole edition of this small, learned and appealing dissertation.
Paul Saint-Olive (1799–1879), engraver and contributor to the Revue du Lyonnais, was a tireless seeker of curiosities (cf. Vingtrinier (Aimé): Paul Saint-Olive, archéologue lyonnais, Lyon, 1877).
Signed autograph inscription by Paul Saint-Olive to Doctor Girard on the inside of the upper cover.
€500