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LÉON, DE SAINT-JEAN. Studium sapientiae universalis. Contextus scientiae humanae. Folding engraved ecclesiastical map of France; woodcut or engraved maps and diagrams in text. [12], 82; [2], 734; 64, [40] pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 349x221 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt with later lettering piece, top of spine chipped, surface wear on covers, cover corners worn through; occasional toning or browning, isolated minor stains, additional title mounted. Paris: Jacques Quesnel, 1657
first edition of a compendium of secular knowledge covering grammar, history, poetry and mythology, oratory and rhetoric, dialectics, logic, physics, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, cosmology, geography, optics, and metaphysics. The author was a Carmelite who published 2 additional volumes on religious knowledge in 1664-65.
