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November 2006 Fine Art & Antiques Auction

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731. Syphilis ou le mal vénérien, Poeme Latin de Jerome fracastor, avec La Traduction en francois, & des notes.

Paris: Chez Jacques-Francois Quillau, 1753. Illustrated by Beniry. Brown leather binding with gilt tooling and marbled end papers. Four first pages are an advertisement. Many wood cut devices throughout. Interior very good with mild yellowing of some pages. Extremities with wear and corners bumped with losses. Frontispiece decorated with a portrait medallion of Fracastor in title engraved by Beniry. Fracastor was a humanistic, doctor and poet. Apprx 6-1/2"T.



150/300   Sold $189.75
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