De la santé des gens de lettres [...].

12mo: xii-189-[1 bl.] pp. (sl. brown. paper, pale foxing).

Contemp. marbled sheepskin, flat gilt-tooled spine, red title-label, red edges (sm. worm gallery on the joints and on lower board, little lacks of leather on turn-ins, cuts and corners rubbed, shelf-mark label on board).

Counterfeit edition printed at Liège (1st ed., Lausanne, 1768) of this treatise by the famous Swiss physician Tissot (1728-1797), giving useful guidance on food and diet to the scholars and on the dangers facing people who dedicate too much time to study! Ref. Droixhe, Daniel - Une histoire des Lumières au pays de Liège. Liège, 2007, p. 93. - Oberlé (Les fastes de Bacchus et de Comus) 445 (1768-ed.). Bound with, by the same author: Essai sur les maladies des gens du monde [...]. Lausanne, François Grasset & Comp., 1770. xxiv-300 pp. (occ. foxing). On the same subject but dedicated to people in general and the risks to their health of their ways of life. Ref. Blake 452. - Bibl. Walleriana 9611. Prov. Library of the Dominicans at Louvain (stamps). Joined: DEIDIER, Antoine.- Dissertation médicinale sur les maladies vénériennes [...]. Sixième édition. Revûe, corrigée & augmentée [...]. Paris, d'Houry, 1725. 12mo: [4]-416 pp. (foxing, some browned lvs, waterstains, old annotations in text and on endpapers). Mottled brown calf, ribbed spine gilt and decorated, red leather title-label, red edges (us., dulled corners with some lacks, top turn-in partly missing...). ( 2 vols)