Wednesday, February 13, 2013


Les médecins à la censure ou Entretiens sur la médecine. 1677.

First edition


BEZANÇON, Germain de. 

Les médecins à la censure ou Entretiens sur la médecine. 

Paris, Louis Gontier, 1677.

250 €

12mo (15.1x8.7 cm), (12)-370-(1)-(1 bl.) pages. 
binding: Contemporary full brown calf, spine in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece. 
Waterstains on inner margin. Joints, with old repairs, starting to split.


By a dialogue between an advocate, a gentleman and a well known doctor on objections to medicine, the author invites the reader to make his own opinion.

First edition.

references: Wellcome [II, p. 161], Waller [1023].

provenance: Janvier de Flainville (booklabel on the paste-down endpaper).


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