Pouteau, Claude. Essai sur la rage, lu dans la seance de l'Academie des Sciences. Lyon, Regnault, 1763. In 8° (195 x 122 mm); 48 pages. Woodcut monogram on title page. Coeval bindings in bazzana with friezes and title in gold on spine, red cuts. In miscellany with Libellus, quo demonstratur: colchici autumnalis radicem of 1763 and Ratio facilis atque tuta narium curandi polypos of 1763. Also in the lot are Guida ossia istruzione per ben conoscere, e scegliere il medico of 1802 and the famous octavo first edition of the volumeCerebrianatome, cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus by Thomas Willis of 1664, unfortunately missing the plates. (3)

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