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Ambroise Paré (c1510-1590)

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09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 102 | Ambroise Paré (c1510-1590)
Ambroise Paré (c.1510-1590)

Traicté de la peste. 1568

PARÉ, Ambroise (c.1510-1590). Traicté de la peste, de la petite verolle & rougeolle: avec une brefve description de la lepre. Paris: André Wechel, 1568. [Bound with:] FACIO, Silvestro (fl.1550-1596). Paradoxes de la peste, ou il est monstré clairement comme on peut viure & demeurer dans les villes invectées, sans crainte de la contagion. Paris: F. Bourriquant, 1620.



First edition of Paré’s extremely rare treatise on the plague, smallpox and measles, based upon his own direct observations of these diseases. ‘Having passed the winter of 1564-65 on tour in Provence with Catherine de Medici and the young King Charles IX, where the ravages of a plague epidemic, added to poverty and general misery, were painfully apparent, Paré was requested by the queen mother to make whatever knowledge he possessed of the disease available to the world. He therefore puts into a book his ideas as to its cause, transmission, and treatment, and says he writes only of what he has seen by long experience during his three years at the Hôtel-Dieu, his travels, his practice in Paris, and his own slight attack while he was serving his internship. This is one of Paré’s most systematic treatises; for its careful symptomatology and thorough description of treatment, it deserves to rank among the best of his writings’ (Doe). COPAC lists Wellcome only; ABPC/RBH record only two other copies at auction. The second work in the volume is the first edition in French of Facio’s Paradoxes de la peste, a rare treatise in dialogue form on the plague epidemic in Milan. Doe 14; Krivatsky NLM 3526, 3870.



2 works in one volume, octavo (164 x 100mm). First work: Title within woodcut allegorical border, complete with 'Au Lecteur' leaf with very large woodcut printer's device on verso (light browning, dampstaining in upper margin, minor marginal worming sometimes into shoulder notes); second work: (light browning, dampstain to lower outer corner, A5-7 chipped at fore-edge with some loss of text). 17th-century mottled calf, morocco spine label, spine gilt (minor worming to upper part of spine, somewhat rubbed).

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