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BOREL, Pierre (1620-1689). Historiarum, et observationum medicophysicarum, centuriae IV. - Isaac CATTIER. Observationes medicinales rarae. - Pierre BOREL. Vitae Renati Cartesii. Paris: Jean Billaine and Veuve Mathurin Dupuis, 1656.
8/so (179 x 104 mm). Woodcut illustration in text. (Title-page loose, a few minor marginal stains.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance. A. Berckhuys (early signature on title-page verso); early inscription on rear endpaper.
Second edition of the first work to apply microscopy to medicine. The first edition was published in 1653; this edition contains a work by the French physician Isaac Cattier, entitled Observationes medicae rariores (first published 1653) and Borel's life of Descartes. See Garrison-Morton 260 (1653 first edition); NLM/Krivatsy 1571; Wellcome II, p. 204; Norman 269.
8/so (179 x 104 mm). Woodcut illustration in text. (Title-page loose, a few minor marginal stains.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance. A. Berckhuys (early signature on title-page verso); early inscription on rear endpaper.
Second edition of the first work to apply microscopy to medicine. The first edition was published in 1653; this edition contains a work by the French physician Isaac Cattier, entitled Observationes medicae rariores (first published 1653) and Borel's life of Descartes. See Garrison-Morton 260 (1653 first edition); NLM/Krivatsy 1571; Wellcome II, p. 204; Norman 269.