Guillaume de BAILLOU
Epidemiorum et ephemeridum libri duo, Studio & operâ M. Iacobi Thevart Medici Parisiensis, digesti, Scholiis aliquot illustrati, & in lucem primùm editi[Two Books on Epidemics and Ephemerides, compiled through the study and work of Jacques Thevart, physician of Paris, arranged, illustrated with several scholia, and published here for the first time]
Jacques Quesnel|Parisiis [Paris] 1640|16 x 23 cm|4 volumes reliés en 1
First posthumous edition of Guillaume de Baillou's Epidemiorum et ephemeridum libri duo, edited and annotated by Jacques Thévart, who dedicated the work to Charles Bouvard, chief physician to Louis XIII. Preceded by an address to the reader by Baillou. Title printed in red and black, with the printer's device. Collation: title, 9 unnumbered leaves, 273 pp., 9 unnumbered leaves (Krivatsy 588; Garrison-Morton 1673, 5047 and 5085).
Bound with three further treatises by Baillou, likewise published by Jacques Thévart through Quesnel, all in their first editions.
The first, Definitionum...
€3,000