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LOT 2217
General Books - Breve Instrvzione Medica Sopra La Pietra, E Gotta
1697 A.D.
8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. (90 grams, 22 x 16 cm).
Gio. Battista Contoli - Rome, 1697, card covers, 19 pp.
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gentleman.
FootnotesContoli has been called 'one of the most brilliant voices in medical humanism'. This paper deals with the supposed effects of gluten in the generation of (kidney-, gall-) stones and gout.
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LOT 2217
General Books - Breve Instrvzione Medica Sopra La Pietra, E Gotta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
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General Books - De L'Eglise Gallicane by J de Maistre
1854 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Count J de Maistre - De L'Eglise Gallicane - Lyon, 1854, cloth binding with gold block titling to spine, 358 pp; with 'Ex Libris de Charencey' bookplate to inside cover. 491 grams, 21.6 x 14 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman. -
General Books - Memoires du General Rapp, Premier Aide-de-Camp de Napoleon
1823 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
Général Rapp - Paris, 1823, marbled boards in quarter-calf binding, gilt fore edge, 439 pp; spine chipped. 494 grams, 21 x 13.2 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
First-hand account of the career of Général Jean Rapp, Napoleon's leading staff officer, written and published two years after the Emperor's death in 1821 with the series title 'Memoirs of contemporaries to support the history of the Republic and the Empire'. Rapp saved the life of the Emperor on more than one occasion, and was present at the battles of Austerlitz (1805), Jena (1806) and Borodino (1812), where he sustained several wounds. In his birthplace of Colmar a statue in his honour stands on the Champ de Mars. -
General Books - Cours Elementaire D'Astronomie
1860 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
M. CH. Delaunay - 3rd edition - Paris, 1860, marbled board covers, leather spine with gold blocking, 644 pp. 608 grams, 18 x 12 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
