Hygiasticon seu Vera ratio valetudinis bonae et vitae una cum sensuum, iudicii, & memoriae integritate ad extremam senectutem co[n]servandae.

Antwerp, Plantin Press (Widow [Martina Plantin] & Sons J. Moretus), 1613

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8vo: [16]-108-[2] pp. (ms. entries erased on title and last f., some notes & underlinings in 2nd part; minor worming in inner blank margin, some browning & spotting).

Mod. half vellum, flat titled spine. Good copy.

Rare first edition of a treatise on health care, in order to keep general and mental fitness until old age, by the Flemish Jesuit Lessius (Brecht 1554-1623 Leuven). With an added essay by the Venetian L. Cornaro (1467-1566). Woodcut mark on title and at the end.
Ref. Simoni (BL) L-88. - DBS IV:1737:13. - BCNI 5907. - STCV (issue A).
Prov. François Moutier (1881-1961), French physician and poet (mod. bookpl.).