GOEUROT, Jean (d. 1551?). Le Sommaire et Entretenement de Vie tressingulier de toute Medecine et Cirurgie speciallement contre toutes maladies sutuenantes quotidiennement au corps humain [includes Régime singulier contre la Peste by Nicolas de Houssemaine and Le Traicte du Regime de Sancte by Pierre de Tuviganes], [no place: woodcut device at end incorporates publisher's initials "P.S." for Pierre Sergent], 1516 [but (?) Poitiers: Jacques Bouchet, ca. 1540], small 8°, 82 + [6]ff., gothic lettering, title in red and black with woodcut border, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, full-page woodcut device on verso of final leaf (B8 and K8 cut short at lower margin with loss of catch-word and letter, D4 holed with slight loss, tear to G8 affecting first two lines of text), 18th-century brown mottled boards, flat-backed calf spine decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed, upper joints splitting), modern cloth box with slipcase. [this editition not in BL French Books 1470-1600; Brunet; Cioranesco or Durling]

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GOEUROT, Jean (d. 1551?). Le Sommaire et Entretenement de Vie tressingulier de toute Medecine et Cirurgie speciallement contre toutes maladies sutuenantes quotidiennement au corps humain [includes Régime singulier contre la Peste by Nicolas de Houssemaine and Le Traicte du Regime de Sancte by Pierre de Tuviganes], [no place: woodcut device at end incorporates publisher's initials "P.S." for Pierre Sergent], 1516 [but (?) Poitiers: Jacques Bouchet, ca. 1540], small 8°, 82 + [6]ff., gothic lettering, title in red and black with woodcut border, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, full-page woodcut device on verso of final leaf (B8 and K8 cut short at lower margin with loss of catch-word and letter, D4 holed with slight loss, tear to G8 affecting first two lines of text), 18th-century brown mottled boards, flat-backed calf spine decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed, upper joints splitting), modern cloth box with slipcase. [this editition not in BL French Books 1470-1600; Brunet; Cioranesco or Durling]

Provenance

Gift inscription to [?] D. Hilaire 1627 at head of title; with two 19th-century bibliographical notes concerning this edition, the later one dated 1867 stating that it was actually published at Poitiers by Jacques Bouchet ca. 1540.

Lot Essay

Because of the number of undated editions, uncertainty exists as to when the first edition of this work actually appeared; Durling cites two editions of ca. 1520 though the composer of one of the bibliographical notes concerning this copy gives the date of the first edition as 1530. Pierre Sergent, who was not an active Paris printer until the 1530's, does not appear to have published an edition before 1531, so the date of this edition is certainly false. There were also a large number of English editions, the first appearing in ca. 1543.

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