Samuel Tissot - De la santé - 1768-1775

Two works by Tissot, including a RARE original edition of the first authorized French translation by the author.

Samuel-Auguste Tissot
De la santé des gens de lettres.
Lausanne, François Grasset & Comp / Lyon, Benoît Duplain, 1768
XV+246 pp
Full contemporary calfskin binding (16x10 cm); notes on title page; very fresh inside; Ex-libris of Justin Godart, Lyon politician (1871-1956).

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Samuel-Auguste Tissot
Avis au peuple sur sa santé. Sixth original edition, enlarged by the author.
Lausanne, François Grasset & Comp., 1775
2 volumes: XXXII-350 & (4)-379-(5) pp
Full mottled calfskin binding of the period (16x9 cm; corners slightly worn), pages browned; Ex-libris armorial (Ant.M. Augustin Palerne de Chintré)

Samuel-Auguste-André-David Tissot, Genevois, studied medicine in Montpellier, before settling in Lausanne, where he became a famous physician, then in Pavie.