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[LIMBOURG (Jean-Philippe de) & LA METTRIE (Julien Offray de). Characters of physicians, or the idea of what they are commonly & what they should be. According to Penelope by the late Mr. de La Mettrie. By *** D. en M. Paris, at the expense of the Company, 1760. In-12, [2] ff, 299 pp, [11] pp. table, with one plate in fine (interchanging the last ff. of the text with the first of the table), half marbled tan basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page, vellum corners, tr. speckled with blue (contemporary binding). Upper jaws cracked, spine very rubbed. Unique edition of this work attributed to La Mettrie, Jean-Philippe de Limbourg (1726-181, a famous doctor from Liège practicing in the Austrian Netherlands, near Spa) only exercising the title of editor.
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[LIMBOURG (Jean-Philippe de) & LA METTRIE (Julien Offray de). Characters of physicians, or the idea of what they are commonly & what they should be. According to Penelope by the late Mr. de La Mettrie. By *** D. en M. Paris, at the expense of the Company, 1760. In-12, [2] ff, 299 pp, [11] pp. table, with one plate in fine (interchanging the last ff. of the text with the first of the table), half marbled tan basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page, vellum corners, tr. speckled with blue (contemporary binding). Upper jaws cracked, spine very rubbed. Unique edition of this work attributed to La Mettrie, Jean-Philippe de Limbourg (1726-181, a famous doctor from Liège practicing in the Austrian Netherlands, near Spa) only exercising the title of editor.
