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MARCQUIS, Lazarus

Volcomen tractaet van de peste

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Cesar Joachim Trognesius
1636

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8°, [8], 210, [5 = index] blz, originele vol perkamentband uit de tijd met sporen van sluitlintjes. Herkomst: Petrus Lalande, Oostkerke (1700); Armand de Terwangne

First edition. Very rare book about the causes, signs, prognosis and treatment of the plague. Written by Lazarus Marcquis (1574-1647), a famous Antwerp physician who studied at the universities of Leuven and Padua. He was a friend of P.P. Rubens and became a city doctor in Antwerp, attached to the Sint-Elisabethgasthuis. Not in Krivatsy ; Wellcome EPB/A/3806.3

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