BOSSCHE, Guilielmus van den ( ca 1756 - ca 1832). Historia medica, in qua libris IV. Animalium natura, et earum medica utilitas exacte & luculenter tractantur. Brussels: J. Mommart, 1639.
BOSSCHE, Guilielmus van den ( ca 1756 - ca 1832). Historia medica, in qua libris IV. Animalium natura, et earum medica utilitas exacte & luculenter tractantur. Brussels: J. Mommart, 1639.

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BOSSCHE, Guilielmus van den ( ca 1756 - ca 1832). Historia medica, in qua libris IV. Animalium natura, et earum medica utilitas exacte & luculenter tractantur. Brussels: J. Mommart, 1639.

4o (186 x 150 mm). Woodcuts in text by Christoph Jegher. (Some pale browning, but generally clean and crisp.) 18th-century vellum, morocco lettering piece.

FIRST EDITION. A very fine series of woodcuts of animals decorates this book, cut by Christoph Jeghers, one of the best woodcutters of the Rubens school. RARE: only three copies have been sold in at least the last thirty years, according to American Book Prices Current, and none since 1987. See Wood, p.250 (lists an octavo edition).

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