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81 - GUYON DOLOIS (Louis). A Course in Medicine in French, contai…
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GUYON DOLOIS (Louis). A Course in Medicine in French, containing *The Mirror of Beauty and Physical Health*. Lyon, Huguetan and Guillaume Barbier, 1671. 2 volumes in one in-4 volume, fifth and final edition, illustrated with a fold-out engraving, followed by the Table of Latin Names of Plants Found in this Course (3 pp.), a Table of French Names of Plants (3 pp.), 23 pp. of plates depicting 202 plants after Matthioli, Lazare Meyssonnier’s ‘New and Highly Intelligible Theory of Medicine’ ([3], 49 pp.), the table of contents for the theory (3 pp.), an explanation of the intaglio engravings of anatomy (11 pp.) illustrated with a fold-out plate, and Meyssonnier’s treatise on poisonous diseases (12 pp.). Full sheepskin binding, spine with four raised bands. (numerous defects, losses and repairs to the title page, the first few leaves and the fold-out plates; traces of water damage; binding rubbed and repaired)
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