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Treating the plague in Ottoman Turkey, from the library of “le Régent”, Philippe d'Orléans

GAUDEREAU, Abbé Martin.
Relation des differentes especes de peste que reconnoissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remedes qu'ils prennent pour en empêcher la communication & le progrès; et de ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guerir.
Paris, Jacques Quillau, 1721. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the arms of Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723) on both boards, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 134, [5], [1 blank] pp.
€ 15,000
First edition of a work on the treatment of the plague in the Middle East, by the French priest Martin Gaudereau (1663-1743). In 1689 Gaudereau went to Persia (Iran) in the company of Bégnine Vachet (1641-1720), a director of the seminary of foreign missions, arriving at Isfahan in 1690. After negotiating a military and commercial alliance between Persia and the French East India Company, Gaudereau started his travels back to Europe in 1703. In 1704 however, on his way from Trabzon to Constantinople, he got terribly ill and nearly died of an infectious disease. He described this "plague" in the present work, with remarks on the nature and symptoms of the disease together with the treatment and the precautionary methods of the "orientals".
With the arms of Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723), "le Régent", on the boards and the bookplate of the French physician Hyacinthe-Théodore Baron (1707-1787), dean of the medical faculty in Paris. Slightly browned with occasional minor foxing, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities and with a tiny wormhole in the foot of the spine, otherwise very good as well. Blake 169; for the arms: Olivier: 2566.1 & 2570.1.
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