La religion du Médecin

by Sir Thomas Browne

$400 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

N.p. 1668. 12mo 130 x 74 mm . Engraved title. 24 , 360 pages. Contemporary vellum. Front hinge partly split, but sound. Item #404304 FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the famous and influential treatise, Browne's 'Relgio medici,' and the only edition in French until the 20th century. By turns credulous and skeptical, Sir Thomas Browne is one of the most unusual of the great writers of the seventeenth century... The combination of detachment from the world with

• Binding: Leather

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