1646 ANATOMY ILLUSTRATED FOLIO antique MEDICAL Oeuvres de Me André dv Lavrens

Andre du Laurens

Les Oeuvres de Me André dv Lavrens, sieur de Ferrieres, conseiller, & premier Medecin du Tres-Chrestien Roy de France & de Nauarre, Henry Le Grand, & son Chancelier en l Vniuersité de Montpelier.
Tradvites de Latin en François Par Me Theophile Gelée, Medecin ordinaire de la vile de Dieppe.
Reveves, corrigées, et avgmentées en cette derniere

Edition : Par G. Savvageon, D. M. Aggregé au College des Medecins de Lion.

Paris; 1646

2 parts in one volume

(16)-597 pp.-(19) with 26 plates; (8)-395 pp.

Signatures: ã8 A-3D6 3E-3F4 ; ã4 a-2a6 2b4.

Complete, as issued.

Lovely French-language edition of Du Laurens works, with a set of 26 anatomical engravings derived from Vesalius and others.
In addition to the author's textbook of anatomy and his account of scrofula, the volume contains works on geriatrics, melancholy and other mental afflictions, and an early ophthalmological work which describes the anatomy and diseases of the eye.

'The volume has an exceptionally well-engraved title page, the author's engraved portrait, and numerous historical and ornamental woodcut initials' (Heirs of Hippocrates, page 144).

Original calf binding, spine with raised bands decorated in gilt.

Binding worn. Front cover detached.  Front endpapers with damage, some wear

 
Folio, size 9.5 by 14.5 inches

Text in French
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Du Laurens (1558-1609) was the court physician to Marie de Medicis and Henry IV and previously had been professor at the University of Montpellier.
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