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Fracastor, Jerome

Fracastor, Jerome. Syphilis ou le mal vénérien...avec la traduction en François, et des notes. Paris, chez C. Lucet, 1796.
12:o in a later, marbled full leatherbinding in old style. Spine gilt decorated and with five raised bands. Top edge gilt, the others only trimmed. Marbled endpapers. Fine condition. Flyleaf with old pasted note about this book. The two first pages with small spot in margin. Page 95 repaired below the text. Page 155 with tear, no text-loss. The last 30 pages waterstained in lower right margin. The last 8 pages discoulored. Engraved frontispice with a portrait of the author, engraved title-page, XIV, 162 p. , (IV). With parallel text in Latin and French.
First edition was published in Verona 1530. Brunet, II, 1364.