Petri Borelli, medici regij Castrensis, Historiarum, et obseruationum medicophysicarum, centuriae IV : in quibus non solum multa vtilia, sed & rara, stupenda ac inaudita continentur : accesserunt D. Isaaci Cattieri ... Obseruationes medicinales rarae, Dom. Borello communicatae, et Renati Cartesij vita, eodem P. Borello authore : quae omnia nunc primùm in lucem prodeunt

Imprint

Parisiis : Apud Ioannem Billaine ... et [apud] viduam Mathurini Dupuis ..., 1656.

Physical description

[16], 184 [i.e. 384], 77, [7] (p. [2]-[3] blank), 59, [1] (blank) p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

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Description

Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator

Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671.

Contributor

Janus Foundation, former owner.

Contents/Summary

Included Work

Cattier, Isaac, active 1637-1665. Observationes medicinales Petro Borello, medico, communicatae.

Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671. Vitae Renati Cartesii summi philosophi compendium.

Subjects

Subject

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Medicine > Early works to 1800.

Tobacco > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800.

Tobacco > Physiological effect > Early works to 1800.

Bibliographic information

Publication date

1656

Title Variation

Petri Borelli, medici regii Castrensis, Historiarum, et observationum medicophysicarum, centuriae IV

Historiarum, et obseruationum medicophysicarum, centuriae IV

Historiarum, et observationum medicophysicarum, centuriae IV

Note

Second and 3rd works, "Isaaci Cattierij in celeberrima Monspeliensium, medicorum vniuersitate doctoris, & medici regij Obseruationes medicinales Petro Borello, medico, communicatae" and "Vitae Renati Cartesij, summi philosophi compendium / authore Petro Borello, medico regio" each have special t.p. and separate paging and signatures. Imprint on 2nd work varies: Parisiis : [s.n.], 1656.

Error in paging: p. [382]-[384] wrongly numbered 182-184, 2nd group.

Signatures: ã⁸ A-Z⁸ &⁸ ²A-E⁸ ²ã² ³A-C⁸ D⁴ E². Leaf ²E8 blank.

Plate (facing p. 46): 1 print : etching ; full-page (image 7 x 8 cm.) Caption: "Figura materiae lapideae crassae meningi adnatae in mulieri." -- Woodcut and type flower headpieces; ornamental initials.

"Nobilem virum adeo pinguem vidi, vt equo insistere nequiret ... ille tamen nunc ... pristinum habitum recuperauit, quod sola masticatione foliorum tabaci peractum fuit ..."--P. 114. "Sic D. Henrico anno vigesimoprimo ortus est dens post nimium tabaci vsum ... "--P. 207. "Icterus à tabaci fumo": P. 301.

Main work includes index.

Errata: p. [14] (1st group); p. 77-[78] (3rd group); p. [60] (last group).

Citation

Wellcome cat. of printed books, II, p. 204.

Bib. Walleriana, 1310.

Note

Special Collections and University Archives copy 1: Provenance: Janus Foundation San Francisco (booklabel).

Location

France -- Paris.