L'Art de Connoistre Les Hommes Par Sr. de la Chambre du Roy en ses Conseils & son Medecin Ordinaire.
by Cureau de la Chambre, Marin Sr
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- Condition
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About This Item
Amsterdam:: [Elzevier] Jaques le Jeune,, 1660.. 12mo.. ¹1, A-L12,M10. Full old calf, worn, corners chipped. Banded spine with gilt decoration, worm damage to head and tail of spine; red speckled edges. Lacks endpapers, worming to front pastedown and lower left margin of t.p. with no loss of text. Browning, occasional damp stain. Engraved t.p. Cureau (1594-1675), French popularizing author, academician and physician to Louis XIII, was a protege of Seguier. One of the first to write of scientific and philosophical subjects in French, he produced works on chiromancy, on light and rainbows, on the passions, on the system of the soul, and on the question of rationality in animals. He was one of the most famous palmists of the 17th century. Richelieu singled him out to be one of the first members of the French Academy. STCN 166012. Willems 1260. Caillet 2728 'Jolie edition'. Krivatsy 3007(incpl.). Cantamessa 1187.
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- Bookseller
- Dark Parks Books & Collectibles (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20032
- Title
- L'Art de Connoistre Les Hommes Par Sr. de la Chambre du Roy en ses Conseils & son Medecin Ordinaire.
- Author
- Cureau de la Chambre, Marin Sr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- [Elzevier] Jaques le Jeune,
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam:
- Date Published
- 1660.
- Pages
- [2],278, [6]p.
- Size
- 12mo.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...