Lot n° 196
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300 - 500
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[Plague]. [Provence, Languedoc, Gévaudan]. Set of 47 printed - Lot 196
[Plague]. [Provence, Languedoc, Gévaudan]. Set of 47 printed documents relating to the plague epidemic in Marseille, Languedoc and Gévaudan from 1720-1722.
- 46 leaflets, printed in Toulouse by Claude-Gilles Lecamus and J. Guillemette, between 1720 and 1722. Including: royal edicts for the closure of ports and quarantine rules; orders from the bishops of Marseille for the reopening of churches; remedies against the contagion; general list of victims by parish. Modern numbering of the documents from 1 to 17, 17bis, 18 to 45 (no. 25 is a duplicate of no. 24). - An article by Dr. Jean Blanc, La défense du Languedoc contre la peste de 1720, 1934, in-8 br.
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