Les novvelles recreations et ioyevx devis de Bonauanture des Periers.

  • Bonaventure des Périers
Date:
1615
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis de Bonavanture des Périers

Description

"Lawyers, priests, scholars, doctors and apothecaries parade through [Bonavanture des Périers'] 90 tales, and his comments on urine analysis, enemas, students of medicine, the plague and ill-health offer a very rare commentary of the scene in France nearly 500 years ago."-- From description provided by seller.

Publication/Creation

Roven : De L'imprimerie de Dauid du Petit Val, Libraire & Imprimeur du Roy, 1615.

Physical description

467 pages, 12 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (12mo)

Contributors

Edition

Reueues, corrigées & augmentées de nouueau.

Notes

Publisher's device on title page.
"Sonnet," page [468]; index [12] pages at end.
Woodcut head-pieces and initials.

Ownership note

Bookplate pasted on front board: "In Memori Wiler Trautner Falkiana. Bibliotheca 1972" with a device of a shield and helmet.

Binding detail

Nineteenth-century stiff vellum. Gilt lettering on spine: "Des Periers Novvelles Recreations Roven 1615".

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Where to find it

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    Closed stores
    EPB/A/69444

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