Lot n° 435
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ESTARD (Michel). Dissertation or Letter written to Monsieur - Lot 435
ESTARD (Michel). Dissertation or Letter written to Monsieur Poirier, Conseiller ordinaire du Roy en ses Conseils d'État & Privé, premier Medecin de Sa Majesté, & Superintendant General des Eaux, Bains, & Fontaines minerales & medecinales de France. [...] touchant la nature & les effets des Eaux minerales & medecinales de S. Paul de Roüen. Rouen, Vaultier, 1717.
In-12 bradel marbled paper boards, brown marbled title page on spine, place, publisher and date on tail, original dust jacket (modern binding).
Complete with its folding frontispiece engraving of the thermal baths of Saint-Paul. The folding engraving outside the text (tin plate) is here incomplete and completed with a facsimile.
"Michel Estard's letter is rare and interesting", preface to the reprint produced in 1909 for and by the Société Rouennaise de Bibliophiles. Ex-libris J.M.
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