Author: QUILLET Claude ( 1602 - 1661 ) - J.M. CAILLAU ( translator ) :
Title: La Callipédie. Ou L'Art d'avoir de beaux enfans. // C. Quilleti Callipaedia, seu de Pulchrae prolis habendae ratione. Libri quator.
Description: .: Bordeaux, de l'Imprimerie de Pinard, père et fils, se vends chez Mouxaux à Metz (tipped on lable), s.d. (An 7 = 1796) , in-12°, 16,5 x 9,5 cm, 126 pp ; (4)nn pp + 71 pp + (1)(bl) + (8)nn pp (catalogue = bibliography & variantes). Bound in contemporary half leather, gilt title on spine, binding with some wear at extremeties. Interior fine. Bi-lingual edition of this 17th century neo latin poem. The first part of the book contains the French translation by doctor J.M. Caillau. The catalogue (or bibliography) signals the Leiden edition of 1655, in-4°, as the first edition of the Latin text. This late 18th century Bordeaux edition is rare. .

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