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Interesting collection comprising 63 pieces, mostly relating to the bull Unigenitus, along with occasional pieces: an Ode to the King of 1744, a Eulogy of Mignard to Le Brun, the Ceremony and Consecration of the Church of Saint-Sulpice, a mazarinade, Gacon’s Nouvelle satire contre les femme, medical writings such as the Abrégé de l'hopital des enfans-trouvés. The first volume has been extra-illustrated with a cartouche of Babel serving as a frontispiece, repeated in the second volume.
Copy with unidentified arms (OHR, pl. 1177).
Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with raised bands, gilt decorated. Red morocco lettering-piece, green morocco volume number. Gilt-stamped arms on the covers. Two corners bumped. Rubbing overall, scratches to the boards. Losses to the leather at the headcaps. Headcap of vol. I and tailcap of vol. II fragile and worn. One leaf with a large loss supplied with early laid paper, p. 14 of Mandement de Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Lyon.
Bookplate of E. J. Berruyer.

Collection of rare medical pamphlets mostly relating to childhood:
De mutationibus quas subit infans... Frider. Iacobis/ Adamus Gessner. Erlangae. 1797.
De lactatione infantum. Guilielmus Harcke. Brunovicensis.
De vomitu nuper natis parvulisque salubri. Ioannes Gottlieb Mentzel. Erlangae
De ophtalmia neotarum. Joanne Friederico Ziegler. Giessae 1828.
De atrophiae infantum causis. Gergius Fridericus Kirchner. Erlangae.
Brevem epidamiae variolosae. Gothfried Christianus Reich. Erlangae. 1791.
De crista lactea. Geo. Ernest Aug. Droste. Gottingae 1817.
De convulsionibus infantum. Maxentius Josephus Gutberlet. Wirceburgi
De noxa fasciarum infantum. Iustus Henricus Wigand. Erlangae 1793.
De secunda dentitiones seu de dentibus permanentibus. Joan. Frac. Gallette. Moguntiae 1827.
Full black paper Bradel binding, with blue title label. Loss of paper to foot headcap. Some rubbing.
The authors are German or French physicians or surgeons, all editions are German. The dissertations treat important and rare subjects such as dentition, smallpox, convulsions or infant nutrition.