Auger FERRIER
Augeri Ferreri Tolosatis medici doctissimi de lve hispanica sive morbo gallico
apud aegidium Gillium • in vico Ioan Lateran|Parisii [Paris] • (Paris) 1564|16 x 10.40 cm|relié
Rare first edition. Not held by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Brunet II, 1236. Title vignette.
Modern full vellum binding with overlapping flaps. Plain spine, ties. Light marginal dampstaining to first few pages. Some foxing.
Auger Ferrier (1513-1588) of Toulouse was simultaneously a renowned astronomer, physician and physicist (he was one of Catherine de Medici's private physicians). The work is a treatise on the Spanish plague or Spanish pox, otherwise called the Neapolitan disease, which is none other than syphilis and which had been wreaking havoc in France for some time (depending on the country it was also called the French disease). Descr
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