Medical satire on enema instruments in 17th-century France
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Medical satire on enema instruments in 17th-century France
Original title :Molière The Instrument Of Molière. Translation Of The Treatise On Clysteribus
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GRAAF (Regnier de). Molière's Instrument. Translation of the Treatise of Clysteribus (1668). Paris, Damascene Morgand and Charles Fatout, 1878. In-8°, portrait, 125 pp., paperback, illustrated cover (small gaps), well preserved interior. Translation by Ernest Boysse of the work of the young Dutch doctor Regnier de Graaf; preceded by a long biographical notice, and illustrated with humor in decorative vignettes and…
GRAAF (Regnier de). Molière's Instrument. Translation of the Treatise of Clysteribus (1668). Paris, Damascene Morgand and Charles Fatout, 1878. In-8°, portrait, 125 pp., paperback, illustrated cover (small gaps), well preserved interior. Translation by Ernest Boysse of the work of the young Dutch doctor Regnier de Graaf; preceded by a long biographical notice, and illustrated with humor in decorative vignettes and ornamental headers depicting all the utensils used at the time with clysters, often featuring whimsical putti. Pleasant copy.
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