DU LAURENS, André (1558-1609). De mirabili strumas sanandi vi solis Galliae regibus christianissimis divinitus concessa liber unus et de strumarum natura, differentiis, causis, curatione quae fit arte & industria medica. Liber alter. Authore Andrea Laurentio . Paris: Marc Orry, 1609. 8° (183 x 120mm). Collation: a 8 A-V 8 X 4 , with blank M4. Engraved architectural title and large folding plate by P.Firens, ruled in red throughout, (three small wormholes in quire a, affecting letters). BOUND FOR QUEEN MARIE DE MEDICIS, widow of the dedicatee, King Henri IV: brown flexible morocco gilt over thin paste boards, in the centre of covers her arms (of France, Medici and Austria) surrounded by the widow's cordelière , in the corners her crowned cypher, covers surrounded by a triple fillet border, filled with a semé of small fleurs-de-lys, flat spine with a similar semé, the crowned cypher in centre [Olivier 2504 fer2 and 3 (this copy)], marbled paper pastedowns, gilt edges, (tear in morocco in a small area of the upper cover and split in upper joint, both skilfully repaired). In lined red morocco case. GENERALLY IN VERY FINE CONDITION. Provenance : sold at sale of Bibliothèque A.L.D., Paris 7 February 1920, lot 127; Christian Lazare (booklabel with his cypher). Du Laurens was personal physician to Henri IV and Marie de Medici and the author of a number of medical works. This work on scrofula and the royal touch which was supposed to be able heal it, is of considerable interest. Wellcome Cat.1940; Garrison & Morton 3806 "an early historical record of goitre which Du Laurens maintained was contagious." In the second part, the author deals with the clinical treatment of a disease recognized today as tuberculosis of the bones and of the lymphatic glands. The large plate shows the king surrounded by his court and kneeling monks, applying the royal touch to the first of three men kneeling before him. The book was presumably published at the end of 1609 and presented to Henri IV before he had the opportunity to have it bound. He was assassinated on 14 May 1610. AN ELEGANT BINDING BY CLOVIS ÈVE, relieur du roi (1584-1634), and one of the earliest bindings made for Marie de Medici after she was widowed in 1610. The flexible morocco binding is highly unusual, and the semé consists of over one thousand impressions of the fleurs-de-lys tool. A similarly tooled binding by Éve in red morocco, also of 1610, is in the Bodleian Library on P.Matthieu, Histoire de Louys XI , 1610. Cf. Gibson, Some notable Bodleian Bindings (1901-4) plate 26.
DU LAURENS, André (1558-1609). De mirabili strumas sanandi vi solis Galliae regibus christianissimis divinitus concessa liber unus et de strumarum natura, differentiis, causis, curatione quae fit arte & industria medica. Liber alter. Authore Andrea Laurentio . Paris: Marc Orry, 1609. 8° (183 x 120mm). Collation: a 8 A-V 8 X 4 , with blank M4. Engraved architectural title and large folding plate by P.Firens, ruled in red throughout, (three small wormholes in quire a, affecting letters). BOUND FOR QUEEN MARIE DE MEDICIS, widow of the dedicatee, King Henri IV: brown flexible morocco gilt over thin paste boards, in the centre of covers her arms (of France, Medici and Austria) surrounded by the widow's cordelière , in the corners her crowned cypher, covers surrounded by a triple fillet border, filled with a semé of small fleurs-de-lys, flat spine with a similar semé, the crowned cypher in centre [Olivier 2504 fer2 and 3 (this copy)], marbled paper pastedowns, gilt edges, (tear in morocco in a small area of the upper cover and split in upper joint, both skilfully repaired). In lined red morocco case. GENERALLY IN VERY FINE CONDITION. Provenance : sold at sale of Bibliothèque A.L.D., Paris 7 February 1920, lot 127; Christian Lazare (booklabel with his cypher). Du Laurens was personal physician to Henri IV and Marie de Medici and the author of a number of medical works. This work on scrofula and the royal touch which was supposed to be able heal it, is of considerable interest. Wellcome Cat.1940; Garrison & Morton 3806 "an early historical record of goitre which Du Laurens maintained was contagious." In the second part, the author deals with the clinical treatment of a disease recognized today as tuberculosis of the bones and of the lymphatic glands. The large plate shows the king surrounded by his court and kneeling monks, applying the royal touch to the first of three men kneeling before him. The book was presumably published at the end of 1609 and presented to Henri IV before he had the opportunity to have it bound. He was assassinated on 14 May 1610. AN ELEGANT BINDING BY CLOVIS ÈVE, relieur du roi (1584-1634), and one of the earliest bindings made for Marie de Medici after she was widowed in 1610. The flexible morocco binding is highly unusual, and the semé consists of over one thousand impressions of the fleurs-de-lys tool. A similarly tooled binding by Éve in red morocco, also of 1610, is in the Bodleian Library on P.Matthieu, Histoire de Louys XI , 1610. Cf. Gibson, Some notable Bodleian Bindings (1901-4) plate 26.
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