Author: Drelincourt, Charles [1633-1697]
Title: Caroli Drelincurtii..,. Opuscula medica, quae reperiri potuere omnia, nunc primo simul edita
Description: Hagae Comitum, Apud Gosse & Neaulme, 1727. Leather. 20x15cm, (12),806,[14]p, Includes a preface by Hermann Boerhaave.. Contemporary leather. A crease & some cracking to spine. Good. ¶ Spine edges professionally repaired using matching brown calf leather. Spine label replaced with red & black gilt lettered morocco label. New endpapers added, mm of the top edge of the first few leaves edgeworn, some board edges repaired. Pagination runs 10, [2], 1-166, 167-168 [repeated 7 times], [2], 167-464, 459-666, [3], 666-718, 709-806, [13, index] pages. Title vignette. Title-page printed in red and black. ["...Scarcely had [ Drelincourt] taken his Degrees at Montpellier in 1654 but immediately he was chosen first Physician to the King of Franc'e Armies in Flanders, commanded by Marshall Turenne... He served William III, King of England and Queen Mary, his Consort, til their advancement to the throne. It was to him alone that the King committee the care of the Queen in her journery to the waters of Aix in 1681..."- Pierre Bayle "Dictionary Historical & Critical", Vol. 2, 2nd edtn, 1735].

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