MÉDECINE. - [MERCURIALE et RULAND].

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MÉDECINE. - [MERCURIALE et RULAND].
Set of 3 books in one large volume in-8, fawn calf, double cold-filleted, spine bound (contemporary binding). Precious collection of medical texts that belonged to François Rasse des Neux, a famous surgeon and bibliophile from Paris in the 16th century who compiled it as follows: - MERCURIALE (Girolamo). De peste in universum. Item de morbis cutaneis, & omnibus humani corporis Excrementis. Basel, n.d. [1577]. 2 parts. (Durling, n°3104). - MERCURIALE (Girolamo). Variarum lectionum libri. Basel, Petrus Perna, 1576. (Durling, n°3112). - ?RULAND (Martin). Hydriatrix. Aquarum medicorum sectiones quatuor. S.l., 1568 [at colophon]: Dilingen, Sebald Mayer. François Rasse des Neux, who first entered the service of Catherine de Medici, then of Jeanne d'Albret, had a large library and a cabinet of curiosities. He noted the contents of the volume on a guard, with the date 1579, and affixed his autograph ex-libris, dated 1578, on the three titles, scratched on that of the first. On the library of François Rasse des Neux, see the articles by Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer in Les Studio bibliographie in honorem La Fontaine Vervey, 1968, p. 389-417 (our volume remained unknown to her.), and Provenances italiennes dans la bibliothèque de François Rasse des Neux, in Libri tipografi biblioteche. Ricerche storiche dedicate a Luigi Balsamo, 1997, p. 385-398. Manuscript ex-libris scratched at the foot of the title of the first work. Marginal moulding on the whole volume, galleries of verses at the lower corner of booklets I and K of the second work with damage to the text. Restored hinges, caps and corners.
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