[Savoye] CABIAS. Les Merveilles des Bains d'Aix
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CABIAS, Jean Baptiste de. Les Merveilles des Bains d'Aix en Savoye: dediées à Monseigneur le Serenissime Prince Thomas de Savoye. À Lyon, par Iaques [sic] Roussin, 1623.
Small 8vo, mm. 170x110; Contemporary full vellum binding; pp. 208, [8]. Sign of dampstain and spread browning, very small wormholes on margins, genuine copy.
Small 8vo, mm. 170x110; Contemporary full vellum binding; pp. 208, [8]. Sign of dampstain and spread browning, very small wormholes on margins, genuine copy.
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Very rare original edition. This is the first monograph on the famous Aix spa. The work opens with a topographic nod on the spas and their site, describing water quality and balneotherapy treatments, with chapters on bitumen, salt, nitro, sulfur, water and water virtues Sulfuric and aluminous. The text is preceded by some rooms in praise of the author and his work.
Wellcome, n. 1172; Manno, n. 7128; Bonino, Biogr. Med. Piem., I, 364. The lot is offered with a valid export license.
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[Savoye] CABIAS. Les Merveilles des Bains d'Aix
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