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TEXTOR (Benoît) - Lot 25
TEXTOR (Benoît) De la maniere de preserver de la Pestilence, & den guerir, selon les bons Autheurs. Lyon : Jean de Tournes, 1551. - In-8, (8 ff.), 155 pp. (5 ff. first two blank). Dark brown morocco, boards decorated with a double framing of three cold-stamped fillets, a gilded fleuron at the corners and a gilded iron in the center, ornate ribbed spine, interior gilt roulette, edges gilt over marbling (Chambolle-Duru). Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions des de Tournes, no. 206. Very rare first edition of this treatise on the plague by physician and botanist Benoît Textor (c. 1525-1565), dedicated to Jean de Tyard. It is divided into two books: De la précaution ou préservation du corps humain, contre la pestilence. - De la cure de la peste. At the head is a series of sonnets, including one by Pléiade poet Pontus de Tyard (1521-1605), signed P.D.T., and another by Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605). At the end, after two blank leaves, we find a "Copie des lettres de Lauteur, tradues en François, au paravant envoyées à maistre Iean Volat, medecin tres expert de Berne son singulier amy, pour avoir son advis sus l'affaire de la peste", followed by the "Response dudit Seigneur de Berne, à Lauteur, touchant la maladie proposee: qui est une dependence de l'œuvre presente, traduite de Latin en François". (Very skilful and discreet restoration to the inner edge of the title, otherwise a very fine copy bound by Chambolle-Duru).
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