LIEBAULT, Jean (c. 1535-1596). Trois livres de la santé, foecondité et maladies des femmes . Paris: Jacques du Puys, 1582. 8° (164 x 105mm). Woodcut title device (waterstains at beginning and end, particularly affecting index, late gatherings creased at corners). Contemporary vellum (soiled, fore-edges torn), modern cloth box.
LIEBAULT, Jean (c. 1535-1596). Trois livres de la santé, foecondité et maladies des femmes . Paris: Jacques du Puys, 1582. 8° (164 x 105mm). Woodcut title device (waterstains at beginning and end, particularly affecting index, late gatherings creased at corners). Contemporary vellum (soiled, fore-edges torn), modern cloth box. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, published in the same year as the Latin edition, De sanitate, faecunditate et morbis mulierum . A doctor and agronomist, Liébault married the daughter of Charles Estienne and translated his father-in-law's Praedium rusticum into French as La maison rustique (1564); a translation of Gesner's Quatres livres des secrets de médecine followed in 1573. He also published a second book relating to women in 1582, a treatise on cosmetics and the preservation of bodily beauty. Wellcome I, 3800; Durling 2959 (attributed to Giovanni Marinelli).
LIEBAULT, Jean (c. 1535-1596). Trois livres de la santé, foecondité et maladies des femmes . Paris: Jacques du Puys, 1582. 8° (164 x 105mm). Woodcut title device (waterstains at beginning and end, particularly affecting index, late gatherings creased at corners). Contemporary vellum (soiled, fore-edges torn), modern cloth box.
LIEBAULT, Jean (c. 1535-1596). Trois livres de la santé, foecondité et maladies des femmes . Paris: Jacques du Puys, 1582. 8° (164 x 105mm). Woodcut title device (waterstains at beginning and end, particularly affecting index, late gatherings creased at corners). Contemporary vellum (soiled, fore-edges torn), modern cloth box. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, published in the same year as the Latin edition, De sanitate, faecunditate et morbis mulierum . A doctor and agronomist, Liébault married the daughter of Charles Estienne and translated his father-in-law's Praedium rusticum into French as La maison rustique (1564); a translation of Gesner's Quatres livres des secrets de médecine followed in 1573. He also published a second book relating to women in 1582, a treatise on cosmetics and the preservation of bodily beauty. Wellcome I, 3800; Durling 2959 (attributed to Giovanni Marinelli).
Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!
Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.
Create an alert
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
