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[Normandy]. GOLLES (Adrian). Abstract of the economy of the - Lot 129
[Normandy]. GOLLES (Adrian). Abstract of the economy of the great and small world, divided into three parts. The first deals with the diverse nature & difference of the Esters & natural forms. The second, the Anatomical History of the principal parts of the body. The third, the History of the faculties of the Soul & Body, with a discourse of the sanguification & circulation of blood. A Rouen, chez François Vaultier le jeune, 1670, In-12, [12] f., 413 p., [8] f., old vellum with covers, smooth spine, title in ink, washed binding, renewed endpapers (worms' trav. in margin of very first f., russ. margin.)
First and only early edition of this work written by Adrian Golles, "lieutenant of Mr. first surgeon of the king in the city of Dieppe", where he was originally from. (Brother II, 31).
Provenance: Rangeard de La Germonière, château de Vast, Manche (engraved bookplate).
[HOUPPEVILLE (Guillaume de). The generation of man by means of eggs & the production of impure tumours by the action of salts, defended by Eudoxe & Philotime, against Antigen. In Rouen, with J. Lucas, 1676. In-12, [10] f., 205 p., [1] f., modern vellum with covers, title in ink on the spine (title a little faded and short of margins).
First edition of this reply given by the Rouen physician G. de Houppeville, following the criticism of his publication of a work on the same subject the previous year. Frère (II, 91) confuses the two works and gives only the collation of the first.
A modern note mentions that this copy comes from the library of La Germonière.
That is 2 volumes.
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