Jean Astruc - Tractatus pathologicus - 1753





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Jean Astruc — Tractatus pathologicus — a Latin medical treatise published in Geneva in 1753, spanning 240 pages in a contemporary full marbled calf binding with a gilt-ruled spine and red speckled edges.
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ASTRUC (Jean)
Pathological Treatise.
Geneva, 1753.
8vo (16.8 x 9.8 cm), (1) f., vi pp., 232 pp., bound. Full mottled brown calf, spine with raised bands ornamented, title piece, red speckled edges. Binding from the period. Top of the spine with headcap exposed, two corners worn, damage with skin peel on the upper board, damp stain at the head of the lower board, foxing throughout the work, small wormholes along the foot of the leaves not affecting the text, more pronounced on the latter leaves.
Latin medical treatise by Jean Astruc (1684-1766), physician to the King of Poland Augustus II and medical adviser to Louis X.
From Borgella's library, with a handwritten ex-libris.
Complete collation
ASTRUC (Jean)
Pathological Treatise.
Geneva, 1753.
8vo (16.8 x 9.8 cm), (1) f., vi pp., 232 pp., bound. Full mottled brown calf, spine with raised bands ornamented, title piece, red speckled edges. Binding from the period. Top of the spine with headcap exposed, two corners worn, damage with skin peel on the upper board, damp stain at the head of the lower board, foxing throughout the work, small wormholes along the foot of the leaves not affecting the text, more pronounced on the latter leaves.
Latin medical treatise by Jean Astruc (1684-1766), physician to the King of Poland Augustus II and medical adviser to Louis X.
From Borgella's library, with a handwritten ex-libris.
Complete collation

