Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(PLAGUE.) Maurice de Toulon. Trattato Politico da Pratticarsi ne' Tempi di Peste, circa gl'Ordini Communi, e Particolari dell'Infermarie, Purgationi, e Quarantene. Engraved frontispiece. [16], 134, [6]; 129, [7] pages. 2 volumes in one. 4to, 206x149 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, covers slightly warped, front hinge cracked; contents dampwrinkled, occasional faint dampstaining in upper margins, first few gatherings and Volume 2 title loose. Genoa: Giovanni Calenzani, 1661

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first edition. The French original version first appeared the following year. Krivatsy 7587. with: [Gibson, Edmund.] The Causes of the Discontents, in Relation to the Plague, and the Provisions against it, fairly stated and consider'd. 14, [2] pages. 4to, 241x187 mm, unbound, spine covered with marbled paper. London: J. Roberts, 1721. first edition.