Tissot - Essai sur les Maladies des Gens du Monde - 1770





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Tissot’s *Essai sur les Maladies des Gens du Monde* is a French-language medical work published in 1770, bound in half leather.
Description from the seller
Rare enlarged second edition, published in the same year as the original, of this interesting and celebrated medical-moral treatise by the renowned Swiss physician Samuel Tissot.
The work examines illnesses and disorders associated with the aristocratic and worldly lifestyle, and is considered a landmark text in the history of sensibility and preventive medicine during the Enlightenment.
Samuel Tissot, Essai sur les Maladies des Gens du Monde, Seconde édition augmenteé, Lausanne, chez François Grasset & Comp., 1770.
PP.: XVI, 173, (III). COMPLETE.
Copy with leaves in overall very good condition, with the usual signs of use and age.
Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine, very well preserved. Red edges. Endpapers present.
Seller's Story
Rare enlarged second edition, published in the same year as the original, of this interesting and celebrated medical-moral treatise by the renowned Swiss physician Samuel Tissot.
The work examines illnesses and disorders associated with the aristocratic and worldly lifestyle, and is considered a landmark text in the history of sensibility and preventive medicine during the Enlightenment.
Samuel Tissot, Essai sur les Maladies des Gens du Monde, Seconde édition augmenteé, Lausanne, chez François Grasset & Comp., 1770.
PP.: XVI, 173, (III). COMPLETE.
Copy with leaves in overall very good condition, with the usual signs of use and age.
Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine, very well preserved. Red edges. Endpapers present.

