[BRUZEN de LA MARTINIERE (Antoine Auguste). The art of preserving one's health, composed by the School of Salerno, New translation in French verse. Augmented with a Treatise on the Conservation of the Beauty of Ladies & several other useful & pleasant secrets. Paris, By the Company of Booksellers, 1777. In-12 half brown basane, smooth spine (19th c.). (Barbier I, 286.) There is also a set of 3 plates in-12 bound, without cover: - Biographical note on Mr G.me AMOREUX, doctor of medicine of the faculty of Montpellier. Montpellier, Ricard, 1806. 46 pp. - MORINEAU, Animadversiones medicae... Montpellier, Picot, 1787. 24 pp. - FOUGERES, Dissertatio Therapeutica. Montpellier, Picot, 1785. 72 pp.

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